From 9f498cc5be7e013d8d6e4c616980ed0ffc8680d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:46:33 +0200 Subject: 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 Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra [ cleaned up perf_counter.h a bit ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/perf_counter.h | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h index bd15d7a5f5ce..e604e6ef72dd 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h @@ -181,8 +181,9 @@ struct perf_counter_attr { freq : 1, /* use freq, not period */ inherit_stat : 1, /* per task counts */ enable_on_exec : 1, /* next exec enables */ + task : 1, /* trace fork/exit */ - __reserved_1 : 51; + __reserved_1 : 50; __u32 wakeup_events; /* wakeup every n events */ __u32 __reserved_2; @@ -308,6 +309,15 @@ enum perf_event_type { */ PERF_EVENT_COMM = 3, + /* + * struct { + * struct perf_event_header header; + * u32 pid, ppid; + * u32 tid, ptid; + * }; + */ + PERF_EVENT_EXIT = 4, + /* * struct { * struct perf_event_header header; @@ -323,6 +333,7 @@ enum perf_event_type { * struct { * struct perf_event_header header; * u32 pid, ppid; + * u32 tid, ptid; * }; */ PERF_EVENT_FORK = 7, -- cgit v1.2.3