Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf bench: port memcpy_64.S to perf bench

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Oct 30 2010 - 15:22:01 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 01:01 +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> > This patch ports arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S to "perf bench mem".
> > When PERF_BENCH is defined at preprocessor level,
> > memcpy_64.S is preprocessed to includable form from the sources
> > under tools/perf for benchmarking programs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ma Ling: <ling.ma@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S b/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S
> > index 75ef61e..72c6dfe 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S
> > +++ b/arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S
> > @@ -1,10 +1,23 @@
> > /* Copyright 2002 Andi Kleen */
> >
> > +/*
> > + * perf bench adoption by Hitoshi Mitake
> > + * PERF_BENCH means that this file is included from
> > + * the source files under tools/perf/ for benchmark programs.
> > + *
> > + * You don't have to care about PERF_BENCH when
> > + * you are working on the kernel.
> > + */
> > +
> > +#ifndef PERF_BENCH
>
> I don't like littering the actual kernel code with tools/perf/
> ifdeffery..


Yeah - could we somehow accept that file into a perf build as-is?

Thanks,

Ingo
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