Set a default event->overflow_handler in perf_event_alloc() so don't need checking event->overflow_handler in __perf_event_overflow(). Following commits can give a different default overflow_handler.
No extra performance introduced into hot path because in the original code we still need reading this handler from memory. A conditional branch is avoided so actually we remove some instructions. Initial idea comes from Peter at [1]. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] --- kernel/events/core.c | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 9e9c84da..f79c4be 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -6402,10 +6402,7 @@ static int __perf_event_overflow(struct perf_event *event, irq_work_queue(&event->pending); } - if (event->overflow_handler) - event->overflow_handler(event, data, regs); - else - perf_event_output(event, data, regs); + event->overflow_handler(event, data, regs); if (*perf_event_fasync(event) && event->pending_kill) { event->pending_wakeup = 1; @@ -7874,8 +7871,13 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu, context = parent_event->overflow_handler_context; } - event->overflow_handler = overflow_handler; - event->overflow_handler_context = context; + if (overflow_handler) { + event->overflow_handler = overflow_handler; + event->overflow_handler_context = context; + } else { + event->overflow_handler = perf_event_output; + event->overflow_handler_context = NULL; + } perf_event__state_init(event); -- 1.8.3.4
