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authorWang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>2016-05-09 01:47:50 +0000
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-05-09 17:20:53 -0300
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perf tools: Support reading from backward ring buffer
perf_evlist__mmap_read_backward() is introduced for reading backward ring buffer. Since direction for reading such ring buffer is different from the direction kernel writing to it, and since user need to fetch most recent record from it, a perf_evlist__mmap_read_catchup() is introduced to move the reading pointer to the end of the buffer. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462758471-89706-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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