1. 03 Nov, 2009 1 commit
    • Arjan van de Ven's avatar
      perf/core: Provide a kernel-internal interface to get to performance counters · fb0459d7
      Arjan van de Ven authored
      There are reasons for kernel code to ask for, and use, performance
      counters.
      For example, in CPU freq governors this tends to be a good idea, but
      there are other examples possible as well of course.
      
      This patch adds the needed bits to do enable this functionality; they
      have been tested in an experimental cpufreq driver that I'm working on,
      and the changes are all that I needed to access counters properly.
      
      [fweisbec@gmail.com: added pid to perf_event_create_kernel_counter so
      that we can profile a particular task too
      
      TODO: Have a better error reporting, don't just return NULL in fail
      case.]
      
      v2: Remove the wrong comment about the fact
          perf_event_create_kernel_counter must be called from a kernel
          thread.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
      Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
      Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090925122556.2f8bd939@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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