From fb0459d75c1d0a4ba3cafdd2c754e7486968a676 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:25:56 +0200 Subject: perf/core: Provide a kernel-internal interface to get to performance counters There are reasons for kernel code to ask for, and use, performance counters. For example, in CPU freq governors this tends to be a good idea, but there are other examples possible as well of course. This patch adds the needed bits to do enable this functionality; they have been tested in an experimental cpufreq driver that I'm working on, and the changes are all that I needed to access counters properly. [fweisbec@gmail.com: added pid to perf_event_create_kernel_counter so that we can profile a particular task too TODO: Have a better error reporting, don't just return NULL in fail case.] v2: Remove the wrong comment about the fact perf_event_create_kernel_counter must be called from a kernel thread. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: "K.Prasad" Cc: Alan Stern Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jan Kiszka Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: Jan Kiszka Cc: Avi Kivity LKML-Reference: <20090925122556.2f8bd939@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker --- include/linux/perf_event.h | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h') diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index df9d964c15fc..fa151d49a2ee 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -744,6 +744,12 @@ extern int hw_perf_group_sched_in(struct perf_event *group_leader, struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx, struct perf_event_context *ctx, int cpu); extern void perf_event_update_userpage(struct perf_event *event); +extern int perf_event_release_kernel(struct perf_event *event); +extern struct perf_event * +perf_event_create_kernel_counter(struct perf_event_attr *attr, + int cpu, + pid_t pid); +extern u64 perf_event_read_value(struct perf_event *event); struct perf_sample_data { u64 type; -- cgit v1.2.2