From 86e7972f690c1017fd086cdfe53d8524e68c661c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wang Nan Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 06:41:29 +0000 Subject: perf/ring_buffer: Introduce new ioctl options to pause and resume the ring-buffer 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: Wang Nan Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Brendan Gregg Cc: He Kuang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: Zefan Li Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459147292-239310-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/events/ring_buffer.c') diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c index 0ed4555..72d8127 100644 --- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c @@ -125,8 +125,11 @@ int perf_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle, if (unlikely(!rb)) goto out; - if (unlikely(!rb->nr_pages)) + if (unlikely(rb->paused)) { + if (rb->nr_pages) + local_inc(&rb->lost); goto out; + } handle->rb = rb; handle->event = event; @@ -241,6 +244,13 @@ ring_buffer_init(struct ring_buffer *rb, long watermark, int flags) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rb->event_list); spin_lock_init(&rb->event_lock); + + /* + * perf_output_begin() only checks rb->paused, therefore + * rb->paused must be true if we have no pages for output. + */ + if (!rb->nr_pages) + rb->paused = 1; } /* -- cgit v1.1