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    perf/ring_buffer: Introduce new ioctl options to pause and resume the ring-buffer · 86e7972f
    Wang Nan authored
    Add new ioctl() to pause/resume ring-buffer output.
    
    In some situations we want to read from the ring-buffer only when we
    ensure nothing can write to the ring-buffer during reading. Without
    this patch we have to turn off all events attached to this ring-buffer
    to achieve this.
    
    This patch is a prerequisite to enable overwrite support for the
    perf ring-buffer support. Following commits will introduce new methods
    support reading from overwrite ring buffer. Before reading, caller
    must ensure the ring buffer is frozen, or the reading is unreliable.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: <pi3orama@163.com>
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
    Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
    Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459147292-239310-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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