[tip:perfcounters/core] perf report: Handle all known event types

tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2009-06-03T22:36:55Z

Commit-ID: d11444dfa78cdd887d8dfd2fab3883132aff2c2d
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/d11444dfa78cdd887d8dfd2fab3883132aff2c2d
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
AuthorDate: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 23:29:14 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 23:29:14 +0200

perf report: Handle all known event types

We have munmap, throttle/unthrottle and period events as well,
process them - otherwise they are considered broke events and
we mis-parse the next few events.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

---
Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c | 9 +++++++++
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c
index 82b6252..6003cc3 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-report.c
@@ -893,6 +893,15 @@ process_event(event_t *event, unsigned long offset, unsigned long head)
case PERF_EVENT_COMM:
return process_comm_event(event, offset, head);

+ /*
+ * We dont process them right now but they are fine:
+ */
+ case PERF_EVENT_MUNMAP:
+ case PERF_EVENT_PERIOD:
+ case PERF_EVENT_THROTTLE:
+ case PERF_EVENT_UNTHROTTLE:
+ return 0;
+
default:
return -1;
}