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| author | Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> | 2018-04-09 10:25:32 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2018-04-17 09:47:39 -0300 |
| commit | 101592b4904ecf6b8ed2a4784d41d180319d95a1 (patch) | |
| tree | f8e1c8fefe00c62600474711085692adfad8971d /tools | |
| parent | e2f73a1828e9ffd2765ce1726b9a9c6e022e3cd6 (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.h | 18 |
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 */ |