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| author | Adrian Hunter <[email protected]> | 2013-08-31 21:50:51 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> | 2013-09-02 14:58:19 -0300 |
| commit | fa0097ee690693006ab1aea6c01ad3c851b65c77 (patch) | |
| tree | 15fd73d509ea6d76759082ba6b7c98ef41f0a53b | |
| parent | f9da0b0c74af25a68b9ac43a2c81f2eea970de5a (diff) | |
perf: Add a dummy software event to keep tracking
When an event is disabled the "tracking" events selected by the 'mmap',
'comm' and 'task' bits of struct perf_event_attr, are also disabled.
However, the information those events provide is necessary to resolve
symbols for when the main event is re-enabled.
The "tracking" events can be kept enabled by putting them on another
event, but that requires an event that otherwise does nothing. A new
software event PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY is added for that purpose.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h index 408b8c730731..ca1d90bcb74d 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ enum perf_sw_ids { PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MAJ = 6, PERF_COUNT_SW_ALIGNMENT_FAULTS = 7, PERF_COUNT_SW_EMULATION_FAULTS = 8, + PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY = 9, PERF_COUNT_SW_MAX, /* non-ABI */ }; |