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/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c') diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c index b31d3d5..1a21170 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c @@ -1002,7 +1002,8 @@ static __kprobes void kprobe_perf_func(struct kprobe *kp, store_trace_args(sizeof(*entry), tp, regs, (u8 *)&entry[1], dsize); head = this_cpu_ptr(call->perf_events); - perf_trace_buf_submit(entry, size, rctx, entry->ip, 1, regs, head); + perf_trace_buf_submit(entry, size, rctx, + entry->ip, 1, regs, head, NULL); } /* Kretprobe profile handler */ @@ -1033,7 +1034,8 @@ static __kprobes void kretprobe_perf_func(struct kretprobe_instance *ri, store_trace_args(sizeof(*entry), tp, regs, (u8 *)&entry[1], dsize); head = this_cpu_ptr(call->perf_events); - perf_trace_buf_submit(entry, size, rctx, entry->ret_ip, 1, regs, head); + perf_trace_buf_submit(entry, size, rctx, + entry->ret_ip, 1, regs, head, NULL); } #endif /* CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS */ -- cgit v1.1