perf counters: clean up 'raw' type API

Impact: cleanup

Introduce a separate hw_event type.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
index 5031b5614f25..daedd7d87c2a 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ enum hw_event_types {
          * If this bit is set in the type, then trigger NMI sampling:
          */
         PERF_COUNT_NMI                  = (1 << 30),
+        PERF_COUNT_RAW                  = (1 << 31),
 };
 
 /*
@@ -49,6 +50,12 @@ enum perf_record_type {
         PERF_RECORD_GROUP,
 };
 
+struct perf_counter_event {
+        u32                     hw_event_type;
+        u32                     hw_event_period;
+        u64                     hw_raw_ctrl;
+};
+
 /**
  * struct hw_perf_counter - performance counter hardware details
  */
diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index 6cce728a6263..3ecd73d03daa 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ struct compat_stat;
 struct compat_timeval;
 struct robust_list_head;
 struct getcpu_cache;
+struct perf_counter_event;
 
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/aio_abi.h>
@@ -625,9 +626,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len);
 int kernel_execve(const char *filename, char *const argv[], char *const envp[]);
 
 asmlinkage int
-sys_perf_counter_open(u32 hw_event_type,
-                      u32 hw_event_period,
-                      u32 record_type,
-                      pid_t pid,
-                      int cpu);
+sys_perf_counter_open(struct perf_counter_event __user *uevent, u32 record_type,
+                      pid_t pid, int cpu, int masterfd);
 #endif