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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2009-04-06 11:45:06 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-04-07 10:48:57 +0200
commit339f7c90b8a2f3aa2dd4267e79f797999e8a3c59 (patch)
tree9eaf2ff2b0d1dc66f753c74c99160a892d72a76e /kernel/perf_counter.c
parentebb3c4c4cb81d64cc041356915ec015e2c57092a (diff)
perf_counter: PERF_RECORD_TIME
By popular request, provide means to log a timestamp along with the counter overflow event. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.024173282@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/perf_counter.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_counter.c14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index c841563de04..19990d1f021 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -1826,6 +1826,7 @@ static void perf_counter_output(struct perf_counter *counter,
} group_entry;
struct perf_callchain_entry *callchain = NULL;
int callchain_size = 0;
+ u64 time;
header.type = PERF_EVENT_COUNTER_OVERFLOW;
header.size = sizeof(header);
@@ -1862,6 +1863,16 @@ static void perf_counter_output(struct perf_counter *counter,
}
}
+ if (record_type & PERF_RECORD_TIME) {
+ /*
+ * Maybe do better on x86 and provide cpu_clock_nmi()
+ */
+ time = sched_clock();
+
+ header.type |= __PERF_EVENT_TIME;
+ header.size += sizeof(u64);
+ }
+
ret = perf_output_begin(&handle, counter, header.size, nmi);
if (ret)
return;
@@ -1895,6 +1906,9 @@ static void perf_counter_output(struct perf_counter *counter,
if (callchain)
perf_output_copy(&handle, callchain, callchain_size);
+ if (record_type & PERF_RECORD_TIME)
+ perf_output_put(&handle, time);
+
perf_output_end(&handle);
}