Commit 339f7c90 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf_counter: PERF_RECORD_TIME



By popular request, provide means to log a timestamp along with the
counter overflow event.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.024173282@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent ebb3c4c4
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@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ enum perf_counter_record_format {
	PERF_RECORD_TID		= 1U << 1,
	PERF_RECORD_GROUP	= 1U << 2,
	PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN	= 1U << 3,
	PERF_RECORD_TIME	= 1U << 4,
};

/*
@@ -221,6 +222,7 @@ enum perf_event_type {
	__PERF_EVENT_TID		= PERF_RECORD_TID,
	__PERF_EVENT_GROUP		= PERF_RECORD_GROUP,
	__PERF_EVENT_CALLCHAIN		= PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN,
	__PERF_EVENT_TIME		= PERF_RECORD_TIME,
};

#ifdef __KERNEL__
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@@ -1826,6 +1826,7 @@ static void perf_counter_output(struct perf_counter *counter,
	} group_entry;
	struct perf_callchain_entry *callchain = NULL;
	int callchain_size = 0;
	u64 time;

	header.type = PERF_EVENT_COUNTER_OVERFLOW;
	header.size = sizeof(header);
@@ -1862,6 +1863,16 @@ static void perf_counter_output(struct perf_counter *counter,
		}
	}

	if (record_type & PERF_RECORD_TIME) {
		/*
		 * Maybe do better on x86 and provide cpu_clock_nmi()
		 */
		time = sched_clock();

		header.type |= __PERF_EVENT_TIME;
		header.size += sizeof(u64);
	}

	ret = perf_output_begin(&handle, counter, header.size, nmi);
	if (ret)
		return;
@@ -1895,6 +1906,9 @@ static void perf_counter_output(struct perf_counter *counter,
	if (callchain)
		perf_output_copy(&handle, callchain, callchain_size);

	if (record_type & PERF_RECORD_TIME)
		perf_output_put(&handle, time);

	perf_output_end(&handle);
}