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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2009-06-02 15:08:15 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-02 21:45:29 +0200
commit8e5799b1ad2a0567fdfaaf0e91b40efee010f2c1 (patch)
treebd3f45c348f48411a4496229572643211cbd59b8
parent53e111a730ea8b002d57dd226098c12789993329 (diff)
perf_counter: Add unique counter id
Stephan raised the issue that we currently cannot distinguish between similar counters within a group (PERF_RECORD_GROUP uses the config value as identifier). Therefore, generate a new ID for each counter using a global u64 sequence counter. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/perf_counter.h8
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_counter.c9
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
index 9ec20fc6bd36..4845a214b9e7 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
@@ -114,8 +114,9 @@ enum perf_counter_record_format {
* in increasing order of bit value, after the counter value.
*/
enum perf_counter_read_format {
- PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED = 1,
- PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING = 2,
+ PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED = 1U << 0,
+ PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING = 1U << 1,
+ PERF_FORMAT_ID = 1U << 2,
};
/*
@@ -290,7 +291,7 @@ enum perf_event_type {
* { u32 cpu, res; } && PERF_RECORD_CPU
*
* { u64 nr;
- * { u64 event, val; } cnt[nr]; } && PERF_RECORD_GROUP
+ * { u64 id, val; } cnt[nr]; } && PERF_RECORD_GROUP
*
* { u16 nr,
* hv,
@@ -503,6 +504,7 @@ struct perf_counter {
struct rcu_head rcu_head;
struct pid_namespace *ns;
+ u64 id;
#endif
};
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index caa012cfe49a..978ecfcc7aaf 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -1510,6 +1510,8 @@ perf_read_hw(struct perf_counter *counter, char __user *buf, size_t count)
if (counter->hw_event.read_format & PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING)
values[n++] = counter->total_time_running +
atomic64_read(&counter->child_total_time_running);
+ if (counter->hw_event.read_format & PERF_FORMAT_ID)
+ values[n++] = counter->id;
mutex_unlock(&counter->child_mutex);
if (count < n * sizeof(u64))
@@ -2303,7 +2305,7 @@ static void perf_counter_output(struct perf_counter *counter,
u32 pid, tid;
} tid_entry;
struct {
- u64 event;
+ u64 id;
u64 counter;
} group_entry;
struct perf_callchain_entry *callchain = NULL;
@@ -2416,7 +2418,7 @@ static void perf_counter_output(struct perf_counter *counter,
if (sub != counter)
sub->pmu->read(sub);
- group_entry.event = sub->hw_event.config;
+ group_entry.id = sub->id;
group_entry.counter = atomic64_read(&sub->count);
perf_output_put(&handle, group_entry);
@@ -3375,6 +3377,8 @@ done:
return counter;
}
+static atomic64_t perf_counter_id;
+
/**
* sys_perf_counter_open - open a performance counter, associate it to a task/cpu
*
@@ -3470,6 +3474,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_counter_open,
mutex_unlock(&current->perf_counter_mutex);
counter->ns = get_pid_ns(current->nsproxy->pid_ns);
+ counter->id = atomic64_inc_return(&perf_counter_id);
fput_light(counter_file, fput_needed2);