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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 03/10] perf: Add a dummy software event to keep tracking
Date: Mon,  2 Sep 2013 17:56:26 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1378155393-7993-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378155393-7993-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>

From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>

When an event is disabled the "tracking" events selected by the 'mmap',
'comm' and 'task' bits of struct perf_event_attr, are also disabled.
However, the information those events provide is necessary to resolve
symbols for when the main event is re-enabled.

The "tracking" events can be kept enabled by putting them on another
event, but that requires an event that otherwise does nothing.  A new
software event PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY is added for that purpose.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377975053-3811-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index 408b8c7..ca1d90b 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ enum perf_sw_ids {
 	PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MAJ		= 6,
 	PERF_COUNT_SW_ALIGNMENT_FAULTS		= 7,
 	PERF_COUNT_SW_EMULATION_FAULTS		= 8,
+	PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY			= 9,
 
 	PERF_COUNT_SW_MAX,			/* non-ABI */
 };
-- 
1.8.1.4


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-02 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-02 20:56 [GIT PULL 00/10] perf/core improvements and fixes Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-02 20:56 ` [PATCH 01/10] perf trace: Allow syscall arg formatters to mask args Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-02 20:56 ` [PATCH 02/10] perf trace: Add beautifier for futex 'operation' parm Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-02 20:56 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2013-09-02 20:56 ` [PATCH 04/10] perf tools: Add support for PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-02 20:56 ` [PATCH 05/10] perf tests: Add 'keep tracking' test Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-02 20:56 ` [PATCH 06/10] perf list: Skip unsupported events Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-02 20:56 ` [PATCH 07/10] perf tools: Fix symbol offset computation for some dsos Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-02 20:56 ` [PATCH 08/10] perf trace: Add beautifier for lseek's whence arg Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-02 20:56 ` [PATCH 09/10] perf trace: Add beautifier for open's flags arg Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-02 20:56 ` [PATCH 10/10] perf trace: Tell arg formatters the arg index Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-03  5:49 ` [GIT PULL 00/10] perf/core improvements and fixes Ingo Molnar

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