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perf counters: restructure the API

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Impact: clean up new API

Thorough cleanup of the new perf counters API, we now get clean separation
of the various concepts:

 - introduce perf_counter_hw_event to separate out the event source details

 - move special type flags into separate attributes: PERF_COUNT_NMI,
   PERF_COUNT_RAW

 - extend the type to u64 and reserve it fully to the architecture in the
   raw type case.

And make use of all these changes in the core and x86 perfcounters code.

Also change the syscall signature to:

  asmlinkage int sys_perf_counter_open(

	struct perf_counter_hw_event	*hw_event_uptr		__user,
	pid_t				pid,
	int				cpu,
	int				group_fd);

( Note that group_fd is unused for now - it's reserved for the counter
  groups abstraction. )

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar
2008-12-10 12:33:23 +01:00
parent dfa7c899b4
commit 9f66a3810f
4 changed files with 106 additions and 71 deletions
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@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ struct compat_stat;
struct compat_timeval;
struct robust_list_head;
struct getcpu_cache;
struct perf_counter_event;
struct perf_counter_hw_event;
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/aio_abi.h>
@@ -625,7 +625,11 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len);
int kernel_execve(const char *filename, char *const argv[], char *const envp[]);
asmlinkage int
sys_perf_counter_open(struct perf_counter_event __user *uevent, u32 record_type,
pid_t pid, int cpu, int masterfd);
asmlinkage int sys_perf_counter_open(
struct perf_counter_hw_event *hw_event_uptr __user,
pid_t pid,
int cpu,
int group_fd);
#endif