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authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>2013-08-31 21:50:51 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-09-02 14:58:19 -0300
commitfa0097ee690693006ab1aea6c01ad3c851b65c77 (patch)
tree15fd73d509ea6d76759082ba6b7c98ef41f0a53b /include/uapi
parentf9da0b0c74af25a68b9ac43a2c81f2eea970de5a (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 <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377975053-3811-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h1
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 */
};