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perf: Provide a separate task context for swevents

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Since software events are always schedulable, mixing them up with
hardware events (who are not) can lead to funny scheduling oddities.

Giving them their own context solves this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra
2010-09-07 17:34:50 +02:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 8dc85d5472
commit 89a1e18731
4 changed files with 33 additions and 19 deletions
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include/linux/perf_event.h
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@@ -952,14 +952,7 @@ extern int perf_event_overflow(struct perf_event *event, int nmi,
*/
static inline int is_software_event(struct perf_event *event)
{
switch (event->attr.type) {
case PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE:
case PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT:
/* for now the breakpoint stuff also works as software event */
case PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT:
return 1;
}
return 0;
return event->pmu->task_ctx_nr == perf_sw_context;
}
extern atomic_t perf_swevent_enabled[PERF_COUNT_SW_MAX];