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| author | Marco Elver <elver@google.com> | 2021-04-08 13:36:01 +0300 |
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| committer | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2021-04-16 17:32:41 +0300 |
| commit | 97ba62b278674293762c3d91f724f1bb922f04e0 (patch) | |
| tree | dc0f53789ab2b9329f5dde2092fa549ce6341412 /include/uapi | |
| parent | fb6cc127e0b6e629252cdd0f77d5a1f49db95b92 (diff) | |
| download | linux-97ba62b278674293762c3d91f724f1bb922f04e0.tar.xz | |
perf: Add support for SIGTRAP on perf events
Adds bit perf_event_attr::sigtrap, which can be set to cause events to
send SIGTRAP (with si_code TRAP_PERF) to the task where the event
occurred. The primary motivation is to support synchronous signals on
perf events in the task where an event (such as breakpoints) triggered.
To distinguish perf events based on the event type, the type is set in
si_errno. For events that are associated with an address, si_addr is
copied from perf_sample_data.
The new field perf_event_attr::sig_data is copied to si_perf, which
allows user space to disambiguate which event (of the same type)
triggered the signal. For example, user space could encode the relevant
information it cares about in sig_data.
We note that the choice of an opaque u64 provides the simplest and most
flexible option. Alternatives where a reference to some user space data
is passed back suffer from the problem that modification of referenced
data (be it the event fd, or the perf_event_attr) can race with the
signal being delivered (of course, the same caveat applies if user space
decides to store a pointer in sig_data, but the ABI explicitly avoids
prescribing such a design).
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YBv3rAT566k+6zjg@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h index 8c5b9f5ad63f..31b00e3b69c9 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -311,6 +311,7 @@ enum perf_event_read_format { #define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER4 104 /* add: sample_regs_intr */ #define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER5 112 /* add: aux_watermark */ #define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER6 120 /* add: aux_sample_size */ +#define PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER7 128 /* add: sig_data */ /* * Hardware event_id to monitor via a performance monitoring event: @@ -391,7 +392,8 @@ struct perf_event_attr { build_id : 1, /* use build id in mmap2 events */ inherit_thread : 1, /* children only inherit if cloned with CLONE_THREAD */ remove_on_exec : 1, /* event is removed from task on exec */ - __reserved_1 : 27; + sigtrap : 1, /* send synchronous SIGTRAP on event */ + __reserved_1 : 26; union { __u32 wakeup_events; /* wakeup every n events */ @@ -443,6 +445,12 @@ struct perf_event_attr { __u16 __reserved_2; __u32 aux_sample_size; __u32 __reserved_3; + + /* + * User provided data if sigtrap=1, passed back to user via + * siginfo_t::si_perf, e.g. to permit user to identify the event. + */ + __u64 sig_data; }; /* |