From 68db7e98c3a6ebe7284b6cf14906ed7c55f3f7f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Shishkin Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 14:18:15 +0200 Subject: perf: Add AUX record When there's new data in the AUX space, output a record indicating its offset and size and a set of flags, such as PERF_AUX_FLAG_TRUNCATED, to mean the described data was truncated to fit in the ring buffer. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Kaixu Xia Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-7-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h index 6c5013a71714..8904ad3a850b 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -768,6 +768,20 @@ enum perf_event_type { */ PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 = 10, + /* + * Records that new data landed in the AUX buffer part. + * + * struct { + * struct perf_event_header header; + * + * u64 aux_offset; + * u64 aux_size; + * u64 flags; + * struct sample_id sample_id; + * }; + */ + PERF_RECORD_AUX = 11, + PERF_RECORD_MAX, /* non-ABI */ }; @@ -785,6 +799,11 @@ enum perf_callchain_context { PERF_CONTEXT_MAX = (__u64)-4095, }; +/** + * PERF_RECORD_AUX::flags bits + */ +#define PERF_AUX_FLAG_TRUNCATED 0x01 /* record was truncated to fit */ + #define PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP (1UL << 0) #define PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT (1UL << 1) #define PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP (1UL << 2) /* pid=cgroup id, per-cpu mode only */ -- cgit v1.2.2