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authorAndrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com>2019-01-10 13:53:25 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2019-01-21 11:01:20 +0100
commitcc6795aeffea0a80d0baf9ad31ba926a6c42cef5 (patch)
tree8969ffe42449ae873b5195ae0cfb19e4b70bf04f /include/linux/perf_event.h
parent486efe9f8e30bac1e236f867df164f4966f3e207 (diff)
perf/core: Add PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE for exclusion incapable PMUs
Many PMU drivers do not have the capability to exclude counting events that occur in specific contexts such as idle, kernel, guest, etc. These drivers indicate this by returning an error in their event_init upon testing the events attribute flags. This approach is error prone and often inconsistent. Let's instead allow PMU drivers to advertise their inability to exclude based on context via a new capability: PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE. This allows the perf core to reject requests for exclusion events where there is no support in the PMU. Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: robin.murphy@arm.com Cc: suzuki.poulose@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547128414-50693-4-git-send-email-andrew.murray@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 54a78d22f0a6..cec02dc63b51 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ struct perf_event;
#define PERF_PMU_CAP_EXCLUSIVE 0x10
#define PERF_PMU_CAP_ITRACE 0x20
#define PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS 0x40
+#define PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE 0x80
/**
* struct pmu - generic performance monitoring unit