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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2010-03-02 19:52:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-03-10 13:23:31 +0100 |
| commit | ca037701a025334e724e5c61b3b1082940c8b981 (patch) | |
| tree | 12e3651ae6b35e9a5df4b49f9f571a01fc5a42a4 /include | |
| parent | d4944a06666054707d23e11888e480af239e5abf (diff) | |
perf, x86: Add PEBS infrastructure
This patch implements support for Intel Precise Event Based Sampling,
which is an alternative counter mode in which the counter triggers a
hardware assist to collect information on events. The hardware assist
takes a trap like snapshot of a subset of the machine registers.
This data is written to the Intel Debug-Store, which can be programmed
with a data threshold at which to raise a PMI.
With the PEBS hardware assist being trap like, the reported IP is always
one instruction after the actual instruction that triggered the event.
This implements a simple PEBS model that always takes a single PEBS event
at a time. This is done so that the interaction with the rest of the
system is as expected (freq adjust, period randomization, lbr,
callchains, etc.).
It adds an ABI element: perf_event_attr::precise, which indicates that we
wish to use this (constrained, but precise) mode.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.392111285@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/perf_event.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index 80acbf3d5de..42307b50c78 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -203,8 +203,9 @@ struct perf_event_attr { enable_on_exec : 1, /* next exec enables */ task : 1, /* trace fork/exit */ watermark : 1, /* wakeup_watermark */ + precise : 1, /* OoO invariant counter */ - __reserved_1 : 49; + __reserved_1 : 48; union { __u32 wakeup_events; /* wakeup every n events */ |