Commit 08247e31 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf_counter: Add ioctl for changing the sample period/frequency



Reported-by: default avatarStephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 8e3747c1
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@@ -164,10 +164,11 @@ struct perf_counter_hw_event {
/*
 * Ioctls that can be done on a perf counter fd:
 */
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_ENABLE		_IOW('$', 0, u32)
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_DISABLE	_IOW('$', 1, u32)
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_REFRESH	_IOW('$', 2, u32)
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_RESET		_IOW('$', 3, u32)
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_ENABLE		_IO ('$', 0)
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_DISABLE	_IO ('$', 1)
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_REFRESH	_IO ('$', 2)
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_RESET		_IO ('$', 3)
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_PERIOD		_IOW('$', 4, u64)

enum perf_counter_ioc_flags {
	PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP		= 1U << 0,
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@@ -1604,6 +1604,43 @@ static void perf_counter_for_each(struct perf_counter *counter,
	mutex_unlock(&counter->child_mutex);
}

static int perf_counter_period(struct perf_counter *counter, u64 __user *arg)
{
	struct perf_counter_context *ctx = counter->ctx;
	unsigned long size;
	int ret = 0;
	u64 value;

	if (!counter->hw_event.sample_period)
		return -EINVAL;

	size = copy_from_user(&value, arg, sizeof(value));
	if (size != sizeof(value))
		return -EFAULT;

	if (!value)
		return -EINVAL;

	spin_lock_irq(&ctx->lock);
	if (counter->hw_event.freq) {
		if (value > sysctl_perf_counter_limit) {
			ret = -EINVAL;
			goto unlock;
		}

		counter->hw_event.sample_freq = value;
	} else {
		counter->hw_event.sample_period = value;
		counter->hw.sample_period = value;

		perf_log_period(counter, value);
	}
unlock:
	spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);

	return ret;
}

static long perf_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
	struct perf_counter *counter = file->private_data;
@@ -1623,6 +1660,10 @@ static long perf_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)

	case PERF_COUNTER_IOC_REFRESH:
		return perf_counter_refresh(counter, arg);

	case PERF_COUNTER_IOC_PERIOD:
		return perf_counter_period(counter, (u64 __user *)arg);

	default:
		return -ENOTTY;
	}