From e6dab5ffab59e910ec0e3355f4a6f29f7a7be474 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Vagin Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:14:58 +0400 Subject: perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events A few events are interesting not only for a current task. For example, sched_stat_* events are interesting for a task which wakes up. For this reason, it will be good if such events will be delivered to a target task too. Now a target task can be set by using __perf_task(). The original idea and a draft patch belongs to Peter Zijlstra. I need these events for profiling sleep times. sched_switch is used for getting callchains and sched_stat_* is used for getting time periods. These events are combined in user space, then it can be analyzed by perf tools. Inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Arun Sharma Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342016098-213063-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/internal.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/events/internal.h') diff --git a/kernel/events/internal.h b/kernel/events/internal.h index b0b107f..a096c19 100644 --- a/kernel/events/internal.h +++ b/kernel/events/internal.h @@ -101,7 +101,8 @@ __output_copy(struct perf_output_handle *handle, } /* Callchain handling */ -extern struct perf_callchain_entry *perf_callchain(struct pt_regs *regs); +extern struct perf_callchain_entry * +perf_callchain(struct perf_event *event, struct pt_regs *regs); extern int get_callchain_buffers(void); extern void put_callchain_buffers(void); -- cgit v1.1