From a78ac3258782f3e64cb40beb5990808e1febcc0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 17:39:05 +0200 Subject: perf_counter: Generic per counter interrupt throttle Introduce a generic per counter interrupt throttle. This uses the perf_counter_overflow() quick disable to throttle a specific counter when its going too fast when a pmu->unthrottle() method is provided which can undo the quick disable. Power needs to implement both the quick disable and the unthrottle method. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: John Kacur LKML-Reference: <20090525153931.703093461@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/perf_counter.h | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/perf_counter.h') diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h index 0c160be2078f..e3a7585d3e43 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h @@ -266,6 +266,15 @@ enum perf_event_type { */ PERF_EVENT_PERIOD = 4, + /* + * struct { + * struct perf_event_header header; + * u64 time; + * }; + */ + PERF_EVENT_THROTTLE = 5, + PERF_EVENT_UNTHROTTLE = 6, + /* * When header.misc & PERF_EVENT_MISC_OVERFLOW the event_type field * will be PERF_RECORD_* @@ -367,6 +376,7 @@ struct pmu { int (*enable) (struct perf_counter *counter); void (*disable) (struct perf_counter *counter); void (*read) (struct perf_counter *counter); + void (*unthrottle) (struct perf_counter *counter); }; /** @@ -613,6 +623,7 @@ extern struct perf_callchain_entry *perf_callchain(struct pt_regs *regs); extern int sysctl_perf_counter_priv; extern int sysctl_perf_counter_mlock; +extern int sysctl_perf_counter_limit; extern void perf_counter_init(void); -- cgit v1.2.2