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authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>2012-08-07 15:20:39 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-08-10 12:16:22 -0300
commit5685e0ff45f5df67e79e9b052b6ffd501ff38c11 (patch)
treeead6bd92a49b42ec0ca5bfee467e03e37656a6f1 /kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
parent91d7753a45f8525dc75b6be01e427dc1c378dc16 (diff)
perf: Add perf_output_skip function to skip bytes in sample
Introducing perf_output_skip function to be able to skip data within the perf ring buffer. When writing data into perf ring buffer we first reserve needed place in ring buffer and then copy the actual data. There's a possibility we won't be able to fill all the reserved size with data, so we need a way to skip the remaining bytes. This is going to be useful when storing the user stack dump, where we might end up with less data than we originally requested. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events/ring_buffer.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/ring_buffer.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index b4c2ad3dee7a..23cb34ff3973 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -188,6 +188,12 @@ unsigned int perf_output_copy(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
return __output_copy(handle, buf, len);
}
+unsigned int perf_output_skip(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
+ unsigned int len)
+{
+ return __output_skip(handle, NULL, len);
+}
+
void perf_output_end(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
{
perf_output_put_handle(handle);