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| author | Wang Nan <[email protected]> | 2016-03-28 06:41:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2016-03-31 10:30:45 +0200 |
| commit | 86e7972f690c1017fd086cdfe53d8524e68c661c (patch) | |
| tree | 81de100c02a7436701f2780f907039f4c16b8275 /include/uapi/linux | |
| parent | 0a74c5b3d20d2a8693848b6ae4f1a97624f5b781 (diff) | |
perf/ring_buffer: Introduce new ioctl options to pause and resume the ring-buffer
Add new ioctl() to pause/resume ring-buffer output.
In some situations we want to read from the ring-buffer only when we
ensure nothing can write to the ring-buffer during reading. Without
this patch we have to turn off all events attached to this ring-buffer
to achieve this.
This patch is a prerequisite to enable overwrite support for the
perf ring-buffer support. Following commits will introduce new methods
support reading from overwrite ring buffer. Before reading, caller
must ensure the ring buffer is frozen, or the reading is unreliable.
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <[email protected]>
Cc: He Kuang <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux')
| -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 1afe9623c1a7..a3c19034d5f8 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ struct perf_event_attr { #define PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER _IOW('$', 6, char *) #define PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID _IOR('$', 7, __u64 *) #define PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF _IOW('$', 8, __u32) +#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_PAUSE_OUTPUT _IOW('$', 9, __u32) enum perf_event_ioc_flags { PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP = 1U << 0, |