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perf/core: Provide a kernel-internal interface to get to performance counters

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There are reasons for kernel code to ask for, and use, performance
counters.
For example, in CPU freq governors this tends to be a good idea, but
there are other examples possible as well of course.

This patch adds the needed bits to do enable this functionality; they
have been tested in an experimental cpufreq driver that I'm working on,
and the changes are all that I needed to access counters properly.

[fweisbec@gmail.com: added pid to perf_event_create_kernel_counter so
that we can profile a particular task too

TODO: Have a better error reporting, don't just return NULL in fail
case.]

v2: Remove the wrong comment about the fact
    perf_event_create_kernel_counter must be called from a kernel
    thread.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090925122556.2f8bd939@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-25 12:25:56 +02:00
committed by Frederic Weisbecker
parent 0f8f86c7bd
commit fb0459d75c
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@@ -744,6 +744,12 @@ extern int hw_perf_group_sched_in(struct perf_event *group_leader,
struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx,
struct perf_event_context *ctx, int cpu);
extern void perf_event_update_userpage(struct perf_event *event);
extern int perf_event_release_kernel(struct perf_event *event);
extern struct perf_event *
perf_event_create_kernel_counter(struct perf_event_attr *attr,
int cpu,
pid_t pid);
extern u64 perf_event_read_value(struct perf_event *event);
struct perf_sample_data {
u64 type;