perf_counter: Full task tracing
In order to be able to distinguish between no samples due to
inactivity and no samples due to task ended, Arjan asked for
PERF_EVENT_EXIT events. This is useful to the boot delay
instrumentation (bootchart) app.
This patch changes the PERF_EVENT_FORK to be emitted on every
clone, and adds PERF_EVENT_EXIT to be emitted on task exit,
after the task's counters have been closed.
This task tracing is controlled through: attr.comm || attr.mmap
and through the new attr.task field.
Suggested-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
[ cleaned up perf_counter.h a bit ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 29b532e..466531e 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1269,6 +1269,7 @@
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
proc_fork_connector(p);
cgroup_post_fork(p);
+ perf_counter_fork(p);
return p;
bad_fork_free_pid:
@@ -1410,9 +1411,6 @@
init_completion(&vfork);
}
- if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD))
- perf_counter_fork(p);
-
audit_finish_fork(p);
tracehook_report_clone(regs, clone_flags, nr, p);