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authorAndrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>2012-07-11 18:14:58 +0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-07-31 19:02:05 +0400
commite6dab5ffab59e910ec0e3355f4a6f29f7a7be474 (patch)
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downloadlinux-e6dab5ffab59e910ec0e3355f4a6f29f7a7be474.tar.xz
perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events
A few events are interesting not only for a current task. For example, sched_stat_* events are interesting for a task which wakes up. For this reason, it will be good if such events will be delivered to a target task too. Now a target task can be set by using __perf_task(). The original idea and a draft patch belongs to Peter Zijlstra. I need these events for profiling sleep times. sched_switch is used for getting callchains and sched_stat_* is used for getting time periods. These events are combined in user space, then it can be analyzed by perf tools. Inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342016098-213063-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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