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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); }; /** |