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| author | Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> | 2014-05-28 11:45:04 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-06-06 07:56:22 +0200 |
| commit | 82b897782d10fcc4930c9d4a15b175348fdd2871 (patch) | |
| tree | 82bc0bb22ef1379b901d4fce582584b6776a91ea /include/linux/perf_event.h | |
| parent | ec00010972a0971b2c1da4fbe4e5c7d8ed1ecb05 (diff) | |
perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events
perf tools like 'perf report' can aggregate samples by comm strings,
which generally works. However, there are other potential use-cases.
For example, to pair up 'calls' with 'returns' accurately (from branch
events like Intel BTS) it is necessary to identify whether the process
has exec'd. Although a comm event is generated when an 'exec' happens
it is also generated whenever the comm string is changed on a whim
(e.g. by prctl PR_SET_NAME). This patch adds a flag to the comm event
to differentiate one case from the other.
In order to determine whether the kernel supports the new flag, a
selection bit named 'exec' is added to struct perf_event_attr. The
bit does nothing but will cause perf_event_open() to fail if the bit
is set on kernels that do not have it defined.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/537D9EBE.7030806@intel.com
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/perf_event.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index b4c1d4685bf0..707617a8c0f6 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ extern int perf_register_guest_info_callbacks(struct perf_guest_info_callbacks * extern int perf_unregister_guest_info_callbacks(struct perf_guest_info_callbacks *callbacks); extern void perf_event_exec(void); -extern void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *tsk); +extern void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, bool exec); extern void perf_event_fork(struct task_struct *tsk); /* Callchains */ @@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ static inline int perf_unregister_guest_info_callbacks static inline void perf_event_mmap(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { } static inline void perf_event_exec(void) { } -static inline void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *tsk) { } +static inline void perf_event_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, bool exec) { } static inline void perf_event_fork(struct task_struct *tsk) { } static inline void perf_event_init(void) { } static inline int perf_swevent_get_recursion_context(void) { return -1; } |