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authorAlexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>2018-04-09 10:25:32 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-04-17 09:47:39 -0300
commit101592b4904ecf6b8ed2a4784d41d180319d95a1 (patch)
treef8e1c8fefe00c62600474711085692adfad8971d /tools
parente2f73a1828e9ffd2765ce1726b9a9c6e022e3cd6 (diff)
perf/core: Store context switch out type in PERF_RECORD_SWITCH[_CPU_WIDE]
Store preempting context switch out event into Perf trace as a part of PERF_RECORD_SWITCH[_CPU_WIDE] record. Percentage of preempting and non-preempting context switches help understanding the nature of workloads (CPU or IO bound) that are running on a machine; The event is treated as preemption one when task->state value of the thread being switched out is TASK_RUNNING. Event type encoding is implemented using PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT_PREEMPT bit; Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9ff84e83-a0ca-dd82-a6d0-cb951689be74@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h18
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index 912b85b52344..b8e288a1f740 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -650,11 +650,23 @@ struct perf_event_mmap_page {
#define PERF_RECORD_MISC_COMM_EXEC (1 << 13)
#define PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT (1 << 13)
/*
- * Indicates that the content of PERF_SAMPLE_IP points to
- * the actual instruction that triggered the event. See also
- * perf_event_attr::precise_ip.
+ * These PERF_RECORD_MISC_* flags below are safely reused
+ * for the following events:
+ *
+ * PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXACT_IP - PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE of precise events
+ * PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT_PREEMPT - PERF_RECORD_SWITCH* events
+ *
+ *
+ * PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXACT_IP:
+ * Indicates that the content of PERF_SAMPLE_IP points to
+ * the actual instruction that triggered the event. See also
+ * perf_event_attr::precise_ip.
+ *
+ * PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT_PREEMPT:
+ * Indicates that thread was preempted in TASK_RUNNING state.
*/
#define PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXACT_IP (1 << 14)
+#define PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT_PREEMPT (1 << 14)
/*
* Reserve the last bit to indicate some extended misc field
*/