perf: Add AUX record

When there's new data in the AUX space, output a record indicating its
offset and size and a set of flags, such as PERF_AUX_FLAG_TRUNCATED, to
mean the described data was truncated to fit in the ring buffer.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-7-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index 6c5013a71714..8904ad3a850b 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -768,6 +768,20 @@ enum perf_event_type {
          */
         PERF_RECORD_MMAP2                       = 10,
 
+        /*
+         * Records that new data landed in the AUX buffer part.
+         *
+         * struct {
+         *      struct perf_event_header        header;
+         *
+         *      u64                             aux_offset;
+         *      u64                             aux_size;
+         *      u64                             flags;
+         *      struct sample_id                sample_id;
+         * };
+         */
+        PERF_RECORD_AUX                         = 11,
+
         PERF_RECORD_MAX,                        /* non-ABI */
 };
 
@@ -785,6 +799,11 @@ enum perf_callchain_context {
         PERF_CONTEXT_MAX                = (__u64)-4095,
 };
 
+/**
+ * PERF_RECORD_AUX::flags bits
+ */
+#define PERF_AUX_FLAG_TRUNCATED         0x01    /* record was truncated to fit */
+
 #define PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP           (1UL << 0)
 #define PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT             (1UL << 1)
 #define PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP            (1UL << 2) /* pid=cgroup id, per-cpu mode only */