From 4a00c16e552ea5e71756cd29cd2df7557ec9cac4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 20:07:51 -0700 Subject: perf/core: Define PERF_PMU_TXN_READ interface Define a new PERF_PMU_TXN_READ interface to read a group of counters at once. pmu->start_txn() // Initialize before first event for each event in group pmu->read(event); // Queue each event to be read rc = pmu->commit_txn() // Read/update all queued counters Note that we use this interface with all PMUs. PMUs that implement this interface use the ->read() operation to _queue_ the counters to be read and use ->commit_txn() to actually read all the queued counters at once. PMUs that don't implement PERF_PMU_TXN_READ ignore ->start_txn() and ->commit_txn() and continue to read counters one at a time. Thanks to input from Peter Zijlstra. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441336073-22750-9-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/perf_event.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index ea3b5dd21a4c..b83cea932f74 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ struct perf_event; #define PERF_EVENT_TXN 0x1 #define PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD 0x1 /* txn to add/schedule event on PMU */ +#define PERF_PMU_TXN_READ 0x2 /* txn to read event group from PMU */ /** * pmu::capabilities flags -- cgit v1.2.3