perf/core: Define PERF_PMU_TXN_READ interface

Define a new PERF_PMU_TXN_READ interface to read a group of counters
at once.

        pmu->start_txn()                // Initialize before first event

        for each event in group
                pmu->read(event);       // Queue each event to be read

        rc = pmu->commit_txn()          // Read/update all queued counters

Note that we use this interface with all PMUs.  PMUs that implement this
interface use the ->read() operation to _queue_ the counters to be read
and use ->commit_txn() to actually read all the queued counters at once.

PMUs that don't implement PERF_PMU_TXN_READ ignore ->start_txn() and
->commit_txn() and continue to read counters one at a time.

Thanks to input from Peter Zijlstra.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index ea3b5dd21a4c..b83cea932f74 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ struct perf_event;
 #define PERF_EVENT_TXN 0x1
 
 #define PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD  0x1		/* txn to add/schedule event on PMU */
+#define PERF_PMU_TXN_READ 0x2		/* txn to read event group from PMU */
 
 /**
  * pmu::capabilities flags