From f6c7d5fe58b4846ee0cb4b98b6042489705eced4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:45:04 +0200 Subject: perf_counter: theres more to overflow than writing events Prepare for more generic overflow handling. The new perf_counter_overflow() method will handle the generic bits of the counter overflow, and can return a !0 return value, in which case the counter should be (soft) disabled, so that it won't count until it's properly disabled. XXX: do powerpc and swcounter Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Corey Ashford LKML-Reference: <20090406094517.812109629@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/perf_counter.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/perf_counter.h') diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h index 977fb15a53f3..ca2d4df29e0c 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h @@ -491,8 +491,8 @@ extern int hw_perf_group_sched_in(struct perf_counter *group_leader, struct perf_counter_context *ctx, int cpu); extern void perf_counter_update_userpage(struct perf_counter *counter); -extern void perf_counter_output(struct perf_counter *counter, - int nmi, struct pt_regs *regs); +extern int perf_counter_overflow(struct perf_counter *counter, + int nmi, struct pt_regs *regs); /* * Return 1 for a software counter, 0 for a hardware counter */ -- cgit v1.2.3