Merge branch 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits)
  perf tools: Avoid unnecessary work in directory lookups
  perf stat: Clean up statistics calculations a bit more
  perf stat: More advanced variance computation
  perf stat: Use stddev_mean in stead of stddev
  perf stat: Remove the limit on repeat
  perf stat: Change noise calculation to use stddev
  x86, perf_counter, bts: Do not allow kernel BTS tracing for now
  x86, perf_counter, bts: Correct pointer-to-u64 casts
  x86, perf_counter, bts: Fail if BTS is not available
  perf_counter: Fix output-sharing error path
  perf trace: Fix read_string()
  perf trace: Print out in nanoseconds
  perf tools: Seek to the end of the header area
  perf trace: Fix parsing of perf.data
  perf trace: Sample timestamps as well
  perf_counter: Introduce new (non-)paranoia level to allow raw tracepoint access
  perf trace: Sample the CPU too
  perf tools: Work around strict aliasing related warnings
  perf tools: Clean up warnings list in the Makefile
  perf tools: Complete support for dynamic strings
  ...

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
index b53f7006cc4e..e022b847c90d 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ struct perf_counter_attr {
 #define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_REFRESH        _IO ('$', 2)
 #define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_RESET          _IO ('$', 3)
 #define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_PERIOD         _IOW('$', 4, u64)
+#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_SET_OUTPUT     _IO ('$', 5)
 
 enum perf_counter_ioc_flags {
         PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP             = 1U << 0,
@@ -415,6 +416,9 @@ enum perf_callchain_context {
         PERF_CONTEXT_MAX                = (__u64)-4095,
 };
 
+#define PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP   (1U << 0)
+#define PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT     (1U << 1)
+
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 /*
  * Kernel-internal data types and definitions:
@@ -536,6 +540,7 @@ struct perf_counter {
         struct list_head                sibling_list;
         int                             nr_siblings;
         struct perf_counter             *group_leader;
+        struct perf_counter             *output;
         const struct pmu                *pmu;
 
         enum perf_counter_active_state  state;