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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2009-07-23 14:46:33 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-08-02 13:47:56 +0200
commit9f498cc5be7e013d8d6e4c616980ed0ffc8680d2 (patch)
tree25ef7a52d61ffd336c73b42dcf770424beb19cf3 /include/linux
parente53c0994709166b111fbe9162d1a16ece7dfc45b (diff)
perf_counter: Full task tracing
In order to be able to distinguish between no samples due to inactivity and no samples due to task ended, Arjan asked for PERF_EVENT_EXIT events. This is useful to the boot delay instrumentation (bootchart) app. This patch changes the PERF_EVENT_FORK to be emitted on every clone, and adds PERF_EVENT_EXIT to be emitted on task exit, after the task's counters have been closed. This task tracing is controlled through: attr.comm || attr.mmap and through the new attr.task field. Suggested-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> [ cleaned up perf_counter.h a bit ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/perf_counter.h13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
index bd15d7a5f5c..e604e6ef72d 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
@@ -181,8 +181,9 @@ struct perf_counter_attr {
freq : 1, /* use freq, not period */
inherit_stat : 1, /* per task counts */
enable_on_exec : 1, /* next exec enables */
+ task : 1, /* trace fork/exit */
- __reserved_1 : 51;
+ __reserved_1 : 50;
__u32 wakeup_events; /* wakeup every n events */
__u32 __reserved_2;
@@ -311,6 +312,15 @@ enum perf_event_type {
/*
* struct {
* struct perf_event_header header;
+ * u32 pid, ppid;
+ * u32 tid, ptid;
+ * };
+ */
+ PERF_EVENT_EXIT = 4,
+
+ /*
+ * struct {
+ * struct perf_event_header header;
* u64 time;
* u64 id;
* u64 stream_id;
@@ -323,6 +333,7 @@ enum perf_event_type {
* struct {
* struct perf_event_header header;
* u32 pid, ppid;
+ * u32 tid, ptid;
* };
*/
PERF_EVENT_FORK = 7,