perf: Add context field to perf_event

The perf_event overflow handler does not receive any caller-derived
argument, so many callers need to resort to looking up the perf_event
in their local data structure.  This is ugly and doesn't scale if a
single callback services many perf_events.

Fix by adding a context parameter to perf_event_create_kernel_counter()
(and derived hardware breakpoints APIs) and storing it in the perf_event.
The field can be accessed from the callback as event->overflow_handler_context.
All callers are updated.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Avi Kivity
2011-06-29 18:42:35 +03:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 89d6c0b5bd
commit 4dc0da8696
12 changed files with 44 additions and 20 deletions

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@@ -715,7 +715,8 @@ static int ptrace_set_breakpoint_addr(struct task_struct *tsk, int nr,
attr.bp_type = HW_BREAKPOINT_W;
attr.disabled = 1;
bp = register_user_hw_breakpoint(&attr, ptrace_triggered, tsk);
bp = register_user_hw_breakpoint(&attr, ptrace_triggered,
NULL, tsk);
/*
* CHECKME: the previous code returned -EIO if the addr wasn't