From 89a1e18731959e9953fae15ddc1a983eb15a4f19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:34:50 +0200
Subject: perf: Provide a separate task context for swevents

Since software events are always schedulable, mixing them up with
hardware events (who are not) can lead to funny scheduling oddities.

Giving them their own context solves this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

(limited to 'include/linux/sched.h')

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 89d6023c6f82..eb3c1ceec06e 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1163,6 +1163,7 @@ struct rcu_node;
 enum perf_event_task_context {
 	perf_invalid_context = -1,
 	perf_hw_context = 0,
+	perf_sw_context,
 	perf_nr_task_contexts,
 };
 
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