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| author | Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> | 2015-01-14 14:18:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-04-02 17:14:08 +0200 |
| commit | 0a4e38e64f5e91ce131cc42ee5bb3925377ec840 (patch) | |
| tree | 726e06adcb05c8e44e93ad072fdcba6be38450e3 /include/linux/perf_event.h | |
| parent | 45bfb2e50471abbbfd83d40d28c986078b0d24ff (diff) | |
| download | lwn-0a4e38e64f5e91ce131cc42ee5bb3925377ec840.tar.gz lwn-0a4e38e64f5e91ce131cc42ee5bb3925377ec840.zip | |
perf: Support high-order allocations for AUX space
Some pmus (such as BTS or Intel PT without multiple-entry ToPA capability)
don't support scatter-gather and will prefer larger contiguous areas for
their output regions.
This patch adds a new pmu capability to request higher order allocations.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@infradead.org
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-4-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/perf_event.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index 5a94f6d6fa91..d5a4a8e95808 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ struct perf_event; */ #define PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_INTERRUPT 0x01 #define PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_NMI 0x02 +#define PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_NO_SG 0x04 /** * struct pmu - generic performance monitoring unit |