x86, ptrace: new ptrace BTS API

Here's the new ptrace BTS API that supports two different overflow handling mechanisms (wrap-around and buffer-full-signal) to support two different use cases (debugging and profiling).

It further combines buffer allocation and configuration.

Opens:
- memory rlimit
- overflow signal

What would be the right signal to use?

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-x86/ds.h b/include/asm-x86/ds.h
index c9e15381dc7..b84040abee6 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/ds.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/ds.h
@@ -52,11 +52,18 @@ struct bts_struct {
         } variant;
 };
 
+/* Overflow handling mechanisms */
+#define DS_O_SIGNAL     1 /* send overflow signal */
+#define DS_O_WRAP       2 /* wrap around */
 
 extern int ds_allocate(void **, size_t);
 extern int ds_free(void **);
 extern int ds_get_bts_size(void *);
+extern int ds_get_bts_end(void *);
 extern int ds_get_bts_index(void *);
+extern int ds_set_overflow(void *, int);
+extern int ds_get_overflow(void *);
+extern int ds_clear(void *);
 extern int ds_read_bts(void *, size_t, struct bts_struct *);
 extern int ds_write_bts(void *, const struct bts_struct *);
 extern unsigned long ds_debugctl_mask(void);