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| author | Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> | 2014-05-28 11:45:04 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-06-06 07:56:22 +0200 |
| commit | 82b897782d10fcc4930c9d4a15b175348fdd2871 (patch) | |
| tree | 82bc0bb22ef1379b901d4fce582584b6776a91ea /include/uapi | |
| parent | ec00010972a0971b2c1da4fbe4e5c7d8ed1ecb05 (diff) | |
perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events
perf tools like 'perf report' can aggregate samples by comm strings,
which generally works. However, there are other potential use-cases.
For example, to pair up 'calls' with 'returns' accurately (from branch
events like Intel BTS) it is necessary to identify whether the process
has exec'd. Although a comm event is generated when an 'exec' happens
it is also generated whenever the comm string is changed on a whim
(e.g. by prctl PR_SET_NAME). This patch adds a flag to the comm event
to differentiate one case from the other.
In order to determine whether the kernel supports the new flag, a
selection bit named 'exec' is added to struct perf_event_attr. The
bit does nothing but will cause perf_event_open() to fail if the bit
is set on kernels that do not have it defined.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/537D9EBE.7030806@intel.com
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h index d9cd853818a..5312fae4721 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -302,8 +302,8 @@ struct perf_event_attr { exclude_callchain_kernel : 1, /* exclude kernel callchains */ exclude_callchain_user : 1, /* exclude user callchains */ mmap2 : 1, /* include mmap with inode data */ - - __reserved_1 : 40; + comm_exec : 1, /* flag comm events that are due to an exec */ + __reserved_1 : 39; union { __u32 wakeup_events; /* wakeup every n events */ @@ -502,7 +502,12 @@ struct perf_event_mmap_page { #define PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_KERNEL (4 << 0) #define PERF_RECORD_MISC_GUEST_USER (5 << 0) +/* + * PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_DATA and PERF_RECORD_MISC_COMM_EXEC are used on + * different events so can reuse the same bit position. + */ #define PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_DATA (1 << 13) +#define PERF_RECORD_MISC_COMM_EXEC (1 << 13) /* * Indicates that the content of PERF_SAMPLE_IP points to * the actual instruction that triggered the event. See also |