From ab43762ef010967e4ccd53627f70a2eecbeafefb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Shishkin Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 11:46:00 +0300 Subject: perf: Allow normal events to output AUX data In some cases, ordinary (non-AUX) events can generate data for AUX events. For example, PEBS events can come out as records in the Intel PT stream instead of their usual DS records, if configured to do so. One requirement for such events is to consistently schedule together, to ensure that the data from the "AUX output" events isn't lost while their corresponding AUX event is not scheduled. We use grouping to provide this guarantee: an "AUX output" event can be added to a group where an AUX event is a group leader, and provided that the former supports writing to the latter. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: kan.liang@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190806084606.4021-2-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com --- include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/uapi/linux') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h index 7198ddd0c6b1..bb7b271397a6 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -374,7 +374,8 @@ struct perf_event_attr { namespaces : 1, /* include namespaces data */ ksymbol : 1, /* include ksymbol events */ bpf_event : 1, /* include bpf events */ - __reserved_1 : 33; + aux_output : 1, /* generate AUX records instead of events */ + __reserved_1 : 32; union { __u32 wakeup_events; /* wakeup every n events */ -- cgit v1.2.3