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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2009-04-08 15:01:26 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-04-08 18:53:27 +0200
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perf_counter: provide misc bits in the event header
Limit the size of each record to 64k (or should we count in multiples of u64 and have a 512K limit?), this gives 16 bits or spare room in the header, which we can use for misc bits, so as to not have to grow the record with u64 every time we have a few bits to report. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090408130408.769271806@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/perf_counter.c')
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diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index 84a39081344c..4af98f943d3b 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -1831,6 +1831,9 @@ static void perf_counter_output(struct perf_counter *counter,
header.type = PERF_EVENT_COUNTER_OVERFLOW;
header.size = sizeof(header);
+ header.misc = user_mode(regs) ?
+ PERF_EVENT_MISC_USER : PERF_EVENT_MISC_KERNEL;
+
if (record_type & PERF_RECORD_IP) {
ip = instruction_pointer(regs);
header.type |= __PERF_EVENT_IP;