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    perf: Add a capability for AUX_NO_SG pmus to do software double buffering · 6a279230
    Alexander Shishkin authored
    For pmus that don't support scatter-gather for AUX data in hardware, it
    might still make sense to implement software double buffering to avoid
    losing data while the user is reading data out. For this purpose, add
    a pmu capability that guarantees multiple high-order chunks for AUX buffer,
    so that the pmu driver can do switchover tricks.
    
    To make use of this feature, add PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_SW_DOUBLEBUF to your
    pmu's capability mask. This will make the ring buffer AUX allocation code
    ensure that the biggest high order allocation for the aux buffer pages is
    no bigger than half of the total requested buffer size, thus making sure
    that the buffer has at least two high order allocations.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
    Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: acme@infradead.org
    Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
    Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
    Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
    Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-5-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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