perf: New helper function for pmu name

Introduce perf_pmu_name() helper function that returns the name of the
pmu. This gives us a generic way to get the name of a pmu regardless of
how an architecture identifies it internally.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 1a0219247183..33f08dafda2f 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -850,6 +850,7 @@ extern int perf_max_events;
 extern const struct pmu *hw_perf_event_init(struct perf_event *event);
 
 extern int perf_num_counters(void);
+extern const char *perf_pmu_name(void);
 extern void perf_event_task_sched_in(struct task_struct *task);
 extern void perf_event_task_sched_out(struct task_struct *task, struct task_struct *next);
 extern void perf_event_task_tick(struct task_struct *task);