[PATCH] Add oprofile_add_ext_sample

On ppc64 we look at a profiling register to work out the sample address and
if it was in userspace or kernel.

The backtrace interface oprofile_add_sample does not allow this.  Create
oprofile_add_ext_sample and make oprofile_add_sample use it too.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/oprofile.h b/include/linux/oprofile.h
index 559c4c38a9c7..b5b3197dfd4f 100644
--- a/include/linux/oprofile.h
+++ b/include/linux/oprofile.h
@@ -61,6 +61,16 @@ void oprofile_arch_exit(void);
  */
 void oprofile_add_sample(struct pt_regs * const regs, unsigned long event);
 
+/**
+ * Add an extended sample.  Use this when the PC is not from the regs, and
+ * we cannot determine if we're in kernel mode from the regs.
+ *
+ * This function does perform a backtrace.
+ *
+ */
+void oprofile_add_ext_sample(unsigned long pc, struct pt_regs * const regs,
+                                unsigned long event, int is_kernel);
+
 /* Use this instead when the PC value is not from the regs. Doesn't
  * backtrace. */
 void oprofile_add_pc(unsigned long pc, int is_kernel, unsigned long event);