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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2009-08-19 11:18:27 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-08-25 09:36:13 +0200
commita4be7c2778d1fd8e0a8a5607bec91fa221ab2c91 (patch)
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parentfa289beca9de9119c7760bd984f3640da21bc94c (diff)
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perf_counter: Allow sharing of output channels
Provide the ability to configure a counter to send its output to another (already existing) counter's output stream. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20090819092023.980284148@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/perf_counter.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/perf_counter.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
index b53f7006cc4e..e022b847c90d 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ struct perf_counter_attr {
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_REFRESH _IO ('$', 2)
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_RESET _IO ('$', 3)
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_PERIOD _IOW('$', 4, u64)
+#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_SET_OUTPUT _IO ('$', 5)
enum perf_counter_ioc_flags {
PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP = 1U << 0,
@@ -415,6 +416,9 @@ enum perf_callchain_context {
PERF_CONTEXT_MAX = (__u64)-4095,
};
+#define PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP (1U << 0)
+#define PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT (1U << 1)
+
#ifdef __KERNEL__
/*
* Kernel-internal data types and definitions:
@@ -536,6 +540,7 @@ struct perf_counter {
struct list_head sibling_list;
int nr_siblings;
struct perf_counter *group_leader;
+ struct perf_counter *output;
const struct pmu *pmu;
enum perf_counter_active_state state;