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Subject: Re: Question about resetting a sampling counter in kernel
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: heechul Yun <heechul@illinois.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:00:54 +0100
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On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 12:37 -0600, heechul Yun wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a question about controlling performance counter in kernel.
> 
> I created a kernel counter which generates an interrupt at every
> 10000 cache-misses as shown below.
> 
> struct perf_event_attr sched_perf_hw_attr = {
>      .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE,
>      .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES,
>      .sample_period = 10000,
>      .size = sizeof(struct perf_event_attr),
>      .pinned = 1,
>      .disbled = 1,
> }
> 
> event = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(&sched_perf_hw_attr, cpu,
>        NULL, event_overflow_callback, NULL);
> 
> What I would like to do is to "reset" the counter before the
> overflow interrupt occurs (e.g, reset at 5000th event),
> and then to restart the sampling from 0.
> 
> I found perf_event_enable() and perf_event_disable() only
> start/stop the counting but couln't figure out how to reset the
> sampling as I described above.
> 
> I would be really thankful if you explain how I can efficiently reset the
> sampling counter.

Expose and use perf_event_reset().