perf_counter: output objects

Provide a {type,size} header for each output entry.

This should provide extensible output, and the ability to mix multiple streams.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090325113316.831607932@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 41 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index 0422fd9bf627..d76e3112d386 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -75,8 +75,10 @@ list_add_counter(struct perf_counter *counter, struct perf_counter_context *ctx)
          */
         if (counter->group_leader == counter)
                 list_add_tail(&counter->list_entry, &ctx->counter_list);
-        else
+        else {
                 list_add_tail(&counter->list_entry, &group_leader->sibling_list);
+                group_leader->nr_siblings++;
+        }
 
         list_add_rcu(&counter->event_entry, &ctx->event_list);
 }
@@ -89,6 +91,9 @@ list_del_counter(struct perf_counter *counter, struct perf_counter_context *ctx)
         list_del_init(&counter->list_entry);
         list_del_rcu(&counter->event_entry);
 
+        if (counter->group_leader != counter)
+                counter->group_leader->nr_siblings--;
+
         /*
          * If this was a group counter with sibling counters then
          * upgrade the siblings to singleton counters by adding them
@@ -381,9 +386,11 @@ static int is_software_only_group(struct perf_counter *leader)
 
         if (!is_software_counter(leader))
                 return 0;
+
         list_for_each_entry(counter, &leader->sibling_list, list_entry)
                 if (!is_software_counter(counter))
                         return 0;
+
         return 1;
 }
 
@@ -1480,6 +1487,9 @@ static void perf_output_copy(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
         handle->offset = offset;
 }
 
+#define perf_output_put(handle, x) \
+        perf_output_copy((handle), &(x), sizeof(x))
+
 static void perf_output_end(struct perf_output_handle *handle, int nmi)
 {
         if (handle->wakeup) {
@@ -1514,34 +1524,53 @@ out:
 static void perf_output_simple(struct perf_counter *counter,
                                int nmi, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
-        u64 entry;
+        struct {
+                struct perf_event_header header;
+                u64 ip;
+        } event;
 
-        entry = instruction_pointer(regs);
+        event.header.type = PERF_EVENT_IP;
+        event.header.size = sizeof(event);
+        event.ip = instruction_pointer(regs);
 
-        perf_output_write(counter, nmi, &entry, sizeof(entry));
+        perf_output_write(counter, nmi, &event, sizeof(event));
 }
 
-struct group_entry {
-        u64 event;
-        u64 counter;
-};
-
 static void perf_output_group(struct perf_counter *counter, int nmi)
 {
+        struct perf_output_handle handle;
+        struct perf_event_header header;
         struct perf_counter *leader, *sub;
+        unsigned int size;
+        struct {
+                u64 event;
+                u64 counter;
+        } entry;
+        int ret;
+
+        size = sizeof(header) + counter->nr_siblings * sizeof(entry);
+
+        ret = perf_output_begin(&handle, counter, size);
+        if (ret)
+                return;
+
+        header.type = PERF_EVENT_GROUP;
+        header.size = size;
+
+        perf_output_put(&handle, header);
 
         leader = counter->group_leader;
         list_for_each_entry(sub, &leader->sibling_list, list_entry) {
-                struct group_entry entry;
-
                 if (sub != counter)
                         sub->hw_ops->read(sub);
 
                 entry.event = sub->hw_event.config;
                 entry.counter = atomic64_read(&sub->count);
 
-                perf_output_write(counter, nmi, &entry, sizeof(entry));
+                perf_output_put(&handle, entry);
         }
+
+        perf_output_end(&handle, nmi);
 }
 
 void perf_counter_output(struct perf_counter *counter,