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| author | Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org> | 2009-12-27 14:43:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-12-28 09:14:37 +0100 |
| commit | 0b413e44d64aeac36a096505a40fc2ff470872fa (patch) | |
| tree | 00a29e51f44b5fe20b379e7b758ce154e4a424a5 | |
| parent | 049ae80b8790bd3c150d78e3351dcc491e9f2416 (diff) | |
perf: Rename perf_event_hw_event in design document
perf_event_hw_event has been renamed to perf_event_attr. The
design document was still using the old name, though.
Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B37646A.90108@klingt.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/design.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/design.txt b/tools/perf/design.txt index f000c30877a..8d0de5130db 100644 --- a/tools/perf/design.txt +++ b/tools/perf/design.txt @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ There's one file descriptor per virtual counter used. The special file descriptor is opened via the perf_event_open() system call: - int sys_perf_event_open(struct perf_event_hw_event *hw_event_uptr, + int sys_perf_event_open(struct perf_event_attr *hw_event_uptr, pid_t pid, int cpu, int group_fd, unsigned long flags); @@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ can be used to set the blocking mode, etc. Multiple counters can be kept open at a time, and the counters can be poll()ed. -When creating a new counter fd, 'perf_event_hw_event' is: +When creating a new counter fd, 'perf_event_attr' is: -struct perf_event_hw_event { +struct perf_event_attr { /* * The MSB of the config word signifies if the rest contains cpu * specific (raw) counter configuration data, if unset, the next @@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ Notification of new events is possible through poll()/select()/epoll() and fcntl() managing signals. Normally a notification is generated for every page filled, however one can -additionally set perf_event_hw_event.wakeup_events to generate one every +additionally set perf_event_attr.wakeup_events to generate one every so many counter overflow events. Future work will include a splice() interface to the ring-buffer. |