perf/core: Add a callback to perf events

A simple callback in a perf event can be used for multiple purposes.
For example it is useful for triggered based events like hardware
breakpoints that need a callback to dispatch a triggered breakpoint
event.

v2: Simplify a bit the callback attribution as suggested by Paul
    Mackerras

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index fa151d49a2ee..8d54e6d25eeb 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -544,6 +544,8 @@ struct perf_pending_entry {
 	void (*func)(struct perf_pending_entry *);
 };
 
+typedef void (*perf_callback_t)(struct perf_event *, void *);
+
 /**
  * struct perf_event - performance event kernel representation:
  */
@@ -639,6 +641,8 @@ struct perf_event {
 	struct event_filter		*filter;
 #endif
 
+	perf_callback_t			callback;
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS */
 };
 
@@ -748,7 +752,8 @@ extern int perf_event_release_kernel(struct perf_event *event);
 extern struct perf_event *
 perf_event_create_kernel_counter(struct perf_event_attr *attr,
 				int cpu,
-				pid_t pid);
+				pid_t pid,
+				perf_callback_t callback);
 extern u64 perf_event_read_value(struct perf_event *event);
 
 struct perf_sample_data {