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authorMatt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>2010-10-04 00:41:13 +0400
committerRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>2010-10-11 19:45:49 +0400
commit84c7991059c9c4530cc911137c5bf508a41ed129 (patch)
tree1fc9f7c8139f680f3d899328128a38e5087c30c7 /include/linux/perf_event.h
parent3bf101ba42a1c89b5afbc7492e7647dae5e18735 (diff)
downloadlinux-84c7991059c9c4530cc911137c5bf508a41ed129.tar.xz
perf: New helper function for pmu name
Introduce perf_pmu_name() helper function that returns the name of the pmu. This gives us a generic way to get the name of a pmu regardless of how an architecture identifies it internally. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 1a0219247183..33f08dafda2f 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -850,6 +850,7 @@ extern int perf_max_events;
extern const struct pmu *hw_perf_event_init(struct perf_event *event);
extern int perf_num_counters(void);
+extern const char *perf_pmu_name(void);
extern void perf_event_task_sched_in(struct task_struct *task);
extern void perf_event_task_sched_out(struct task_struct *task, struct task_struct *next);
extern void perf_event_task_tick(struct task_struct *task);