Commit-ID: fa0097ee690693006ab1aea6c01ad3c851b65c77 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/fa0097ee690693006ab1aea6c01ad3c851b65c77 Author: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 21:50:51 +0300 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 14:58:19 -0300 perf: Add a dummy software event to keep tracking When an event is disabled the "tracking" events selected by the 'mmap', 'comm' and 'task' bits of struct perf_event_attr, are also disabled. However, the information those events provide is necessary to resolve symbols for when the main event is re-enabled. The "tracking" events can be kept enabled by putting them on another event, but that requires an event that otherwise does nothing. A new software event PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY is added for that purpose. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377975053-3811-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h index 408b8c7..ca1d90b 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ enum perf_sw_ids { PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MAJ = 6, PERF_COUNT_SW_ALIGNMENT_FAULTS = 7, PERF_COUNT_SW_EMULATION_FAULTS = 8, + PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY = 9, PERF_COUNT_SW_MAX, /* non-ABI */ }; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html