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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2010-05-25 17:49:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-06-09 11:12:34 +0200 |
| commit | 8d2cacbbb8deadfae78aa16e4e1ee619bdd7019e (patch) | |
| tree | 79fcb319d1c99e348b0a04056e016c85c3666b35 /include/linux/perf_event.h | |
| parent | 3af9e859281bda7eb7c20b51879cf43aa788ac2e (diff) | |
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perf: Cleanup {start,commit,cancel}_txn details
Clarify some of the transactional group scheduling API details
and change it so that a successfull ->commit_txn also closes
the transaction.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1274803086.5882.1752.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/perf_event.h | 27 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index 36efad90cd43..f1b6ba0770e0 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -549,7 +549,10 @@ struct hw_perf_event { struct perf_event; -#define PERF_EVENT_TXN_STARTED 1 +/* + * Common implementation detail of pmu::{start,commit,cancel}_txn + */ +#define PERF_EVENT_TXN 0x1 /** * struct pmu - generic performance monitoring unit @@ -563,14 +566,28 @@ struct pmu { void (*unthrottle) (struct perf_event *event); /* - * group events scheduling is treated as a transaction, - * add group events as a whole and perform one schedulability test. - * If test fails, roll back the whole group + * Group events scheduling is treated as a transaction, add group + * events as a whole and perform one schedulability test. If the test + * fails, roll back the whole group */ + /* + * Start the transaction, after this ->enable() doesn't need + * to do schedulability tests. + */ void (*start_txn) (const struct pmu *pmu); - void (*cancel_txn) (const struct pmu *pmu); + /* + * If ->start_txn() disabled the ->enable() schedulability test + * then ->commit_txn() is required to perform one. On success + * the transaction is closed. On error the transaction is kept + * open until ->cancel_txn() is called. + */ int (*commit_txn) (const struct pmu *pmu); + /* + * Will cancel the transaction, assumes ->disable() is called for + * each successfull ->enable() during the transaction. + */ + void (*cancel_txn) (const struct pmu *pmu); }; /** |