perf_counter: Allow sharing of output channels
Provide the ability to configure a counter to send its output
to another (already existing) counter's output stream.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090819092023.980284148@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
index b53f700..e022b84 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_REFRESH _IO ('$', 2)
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_RESET _IO ('$', 3)
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_PERIOD _IOW('$', 4, u64)
+#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_SET_OUTPUT _IO ('$', 5)
enum perf_counter_ioc_flags {
PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP = 1U << 0,
@@ -415,6 +416,9 @@
PERF_CONTEXT_MAX = (__u64)-4095,
};
+#define PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP (1U << 0)
+#define PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT (1U << 1)
+
#ifdef __KERNEL__
/*
* Kernel-internal data types and definitions:
@@ -536,6 +540,7 @@
struct list_head sibling_list;
int nr_siblings;
struct perf_counter *group_leader;
+ struct perf_counter *output;
const struct pmu *pmu;
enum perf_counter_active_state state;