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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] perf-events: Add support for supplementary event registers v5
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:20:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1298388053.2217.204.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1298221019.2318.62.camel@localhost>

On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 00:56 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> @@ -225,7 +225,10 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
>         };
>  
>         __u32                   bp_type;
> -       __u64                   bp_addr;
> +       union {
> +               __u64           bp_addr;
> +               __u64           event_extra; /* Extra for some events */
> +       };
>         __u64                   bp_len;
>  }; 

I did s/event_extra/config1/g and:

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/perf_event.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -227,9 +230,12 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
 	__u32			bp_type;
 	union {
 		__u64		bp_addr;
-		__u64		config1; /* Extra for some events */
+		__u64		config1;	/* extension of config0 */
+	};
+	union {
+		__u64		bp_len;
+		__u64		config2;	/* extension of config1 */
 	};
-	__u64			bp_len;
 };
 
 /*

Giving us basically 192 bits of config{,1,2} space and the possibility
of eventually deprecating the bp_ stuff.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-22 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-20 16:56 [PATCH 1/6] perf-events: Add support for supplementary event registers v5 Lin Ming
2011-02-22 15:20 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-02-23  1:09   ` Lin Ming
2011-02-23  1:12 ` Stephane Eranian
2011-02-23  2:42   ` Lin Ming

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