Merge tag 'v5.5-rc5' into next

Sync up with mainline to get SPI "delay" API changes.

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/record.c b/tools/perf/util/record.c
index 8579505c29a4..7def66168503 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/record.c
@@ -136,6 +136,37 @@ bool perf_can_record_cpu_wide(void)
 	return true;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Architectures are expected to know if AUX area sampling is supported by the
+ * hardware. Here we check for kernel support.
+ */
+bool perf_can_aux_sample(void)
+{
+	struct perf_event_attr attr = {
+		.size = sizeof(struct perf_event_attr),
+		.exclude_kernel = 1,
+		/*
+		 * Non-zero value causes the kernel to calculate the effective
+		 * attribute size up to that byte.
+		 */
+		.aux_sample_size = 1,
+	};
+	int fd;
+
+	fd = sys_perf_event_open(&attr, -1, 0, -1, 0);
+	/*
+	 * If the kernel attribute is big enough to contain aux_sample_size
+	 * then we assume that it is supported. We are relying on the kernel to
+	 * validate the attribute size before anything else that could be wrong.
+	 */
+	if (fd < 0 && errno == E2BIG)
+		return false;
+	if (fd >= 0)
+		close(fd);
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 void perf_evlist__config(struct evlist *evlist, struct record_opts *opts,
 			 struct callchain_param *callchain)
 {