perf cs-etm: Remove duplicate and incorrect aux size checks
authorJames Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Wed, 8 Dec 2021 11:54:35 +0000 (11:54 +0000)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:18:12 +0000 (12:18 -0300)
commit7cc9680c4be7c1da7a3570711f01273b781b936b
tree7ae3f8ad01fd8e9ac94ab2311178e0129a808260
parent6732f10b11c63112ce34a064b247c00e090b9514
perf cs-etm: Remove duplicate and incorrect aux size checks

There are two checks, one is for size when running without admin, but
this one is covered by the driver and reported on in more detail here
(builtin-record.c):

  pr_err("Permission error mapping pages.\n"
         "Consider increasing "
         "/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb,\n"
         "or try again with a smaller value of -m/--mmap_pages.\n"
         "(current value: %u,%u)\n",

This had the effect of artificially limiting the aux buffer size to a
value smaller than what was allowed because perf_event_mlock_kb wasn't
taken into account.

The second is to check for a power of two, but this is covered here
(evlist.c):

  pr_info("rounding mmap pages size to %s (%lu pages)\n",
          buf, pages);

Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211208115435.610101-1-james.clark@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c