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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2010-05-21 14:27:58 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-06-09 11:12:37 +0200
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perf: Add perf_event::child_count
Only child counters adding back their values into the parent counter are responsible for cross-cpu updates to event->count. So if we pull that out into a new child_count variable, we get an event->count that is only modified locally. 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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 441992a9775c..f34dab9b275e 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -671,6 +671,7 @@ struct perf_event {
enum perf_event_active_state state;
unsigned int attach_state;
atomic64_t count;
+ atomic64_t child_count;
/*
* These are the total time in nanoseconds that the event