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authorStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>2010-02-08 10:06:01 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-02-26 04:56:53 -0500
commitd76a0812ac4139ceb54daab3cc70e1bd8bd9d43a (patch)
tree81413e2271b310a698bec191a8f0ded5cdcfa2de /include
parent3a0304e90aa5a2c0c308a05d28f7d109a48d8539 (diff)
perf_events: Add new start/stop PMU callbacks
In certain situations, the kernel may need to stop and start the same event rapidly. The current PMU callbacks do not distinguish between stop and release (i.e., stop + free the resource). Thus, a counter may be released, then it will be immediately re-acquired. Event scheduling will again take place with no guarantee to assign the same counter. On some processors, this may event yield to failure to assign the event back due to competion between cores. This patch is adding a new pair of callback to stop and restart a counter without actually release the underlying counter resource. On stop, the counter is stopped, its values saved and that's it. On start, the value is reloaded and counter is restarted (on x86, actual restart is delayed until perf_enable()). Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> [ added fallback to ->enable/->disable for all other PMUs fixed x86_pmu_start() to call x86_pmu.enable() merged __x86_pmu_disable into x86_pmu_stop() ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4b703875.0a04d00a.7896.ffffb824@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/perf_event.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 071a7db52549..b08dfdad08cb 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -513,6 +513,8 @@ struct perf_event;
513struct pmu { 513struct pmu {
514 int (*enable) (struct perf_event *event); 514 int (*enable) (struct perf_event *event);
515 void (*disable) (struct perf_event *event); 515 void (*disable) (struct perf_event *event);
516 int (*start) (struct perf_event *event);
517 void (*stop) (struct perf_event *event);
516 void (*read) (struct perf_event *event); 518 void (*read) (struct perf_event *event);
517 void (*unthrottle) (struct perf_event *event); 519 void (*unthrottle) (struct perf_event *event);
518}; 520};