From 84c7991059c9c4530cc911137c5bf508a41ed129 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 21:41:13 +0100
Subject: perf: New helper function for pmu name

Introduce perf_pmu_name() helper function that returns the name of the
pmu. This gives us a generic way to get the name of a pmu regardless of
how an architecture identifies it internally.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
---
 kernel/perf_event.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'kernel/perf_event.c')

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 403d1804b198..e2534691db0d 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@ void __weak hw_perf_enable(void)		{ barrier(); }
 
 void __weak perf_event_print_debug(void)	{ }
 
+extern __weak const char *perf_pmu_name(void)
+{
+	return "pmu";
+}
+
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, perf_disable_count);
 
 void perf_disable(void)
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