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| author | Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> | 2012-07-11 18:14:58 +0400 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2012-07-31 17:02:05 +0200 |
| commit | e6dab5ffab59e910ec0e3355f4a6f29f7a7be474 (patch) | |
| tree | 87acf0fb071b8d09794ac7d834cb256de030cceb /include/linux/perf_event.h | |
| parent | d07bdfd322d307789f15b427dbcc39257665356f (diff) | |
| download | lwn-e6dab5ffab59e910ec0e3355f4a6f29f7a7be474.tar.gz lwn-e6dab5ffab59e910ec0e3355f4a6f29f7a7be474.zip | |
perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events
A few events are interesting not only for a current task.
For example, sched_stat_* events are interesting for a task
which wakes up. For this reason, it will be good if such
events will be delivered to a target task too.
Now a target task can be set by using __perf_task().
The original idea and a draft patch belongs to Peter Zijlstra.
I need these events for profiling sleep times. sched_switch is used for
getting callchains and sched_stat_* is used for getting time periods.
These events are combined in user space, then it can be analyzed by
perf tools.
Inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342016098-213063-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/perf_event.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index 76c5c8b724a7..7602ccb3f40e 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -1272,7 +1272,8 @@ static inline bool perf_paranoid_kernel(void) extern void perf_event_init(void); extern void perf_tp_event(u64 addr, u64 count, void *record, int entry_size, struct pt_regs *regs, - struct hlist_head *head, int rctx); + struct hlist_head *head, int rctx, + struct task_struct *task); extern void perf_bp_event(struct perf_event *event, void *data); #ifndef perf_misc_flags |