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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2009-04-08 15:01:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-08 18:53:27 +0200 |
| commit | 6fab01927e8bdbbc77bafba2abb4810c5591ad52 (patch) | |
| tree | 44e375d89034d15072e100494559b05fe321ae1e | |
| parent | e30e08f65c7ef6c230424264f09c3d53f117f58b (diff) | |
perf_counter: provide misc bits in the event header
Limit the size of each record to 64k (or should we count in multiples
of u64 and have a 512K limit?), this gives 16 bits or spare room in the
header, which we can use for misc bits, so as to not have to grow the
record with u64 every time we have a few bits to report.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130408.769271806@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/perf_counter.h | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/perf_counter.c | 3 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h index 7f5d353d78ac..5bd8817b12d4 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h @@ -201,9 +201,13 @@ struct perf_counter_mmap_page { __u32 data_head; /* head in the data section */ }; +#define PERF_EVENT_MISC_KERNEL (1 << 0) +#define PERF_EVENT_MISC_USER (1 << 1) + struct perf_event_header { __u32 type; - __u32 size; + __u16 misc; + __u16 size; }; enum perf_event_type { diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c index 84a39081344c..4af98f943d3b 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_counter.c +++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c @@ -1831,6 +1831,9 @@ static void perf_counter_output(struct perf_counter *counter, header.type = PERF_EVENT_COUNTER_OVERFLOW; header.size = sizeof(header); + header.misc = user_mode(regs) ? + PERF_EVENT_MISC_USER : PERF_EVENT_MISC_KERNEL; + if (record_type & PERF_RECORD_IP) { ip = instruction_pointer(regs); header.type |= __PERF_EVENT_IP; |