Re: [PATCH V3 1/6] perf/core: Adding PMU driver specific configuration

Peter Zijlstra
2016-08-04T16:58:48Z

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 03:42:18PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> This patch somewhat mimics the work done on address filters to
> add the infrastructure needed to pass PMU specific HW
> configuration to the driver before a session starts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>

> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> index c66a485a24ac..90fbc5fd3925 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> @@ -407,6 +407,7 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
> #define PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID _IOR('$', 7, __u64 *)
> #define PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF _IOW('$', 8, __u32)
> #define PERF_EVENT_IOC_PAUSE_OUTPUT _IOW('$', 9, __u32)
> +#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_DRV_CONFIGS _IOW('$', 10, char *)

Please also do a manpages patch.