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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-04 11:43:53 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-04 11:43:53 +0100
commit2b578459c3274941156093eba149745e43f93067 (patch)
tree050f229146a216318511378e4de8096871e65ec9 /kernel
parent8163d88c79dca35478a2405c837733ac50ea4c39 (diff)
parent2743a5b0fa6f309da904f2190a9cc25deee34dbd (diff)
Merge branch 'rfc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/perfcounters into perfcounters/core
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_counter.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index 16b14ba99d3..b2e838959f3 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -1683,16 +1683,16 @@ perf_counter_alloc(struct perf_counter_hw_event *hw_event,
}
/**
- * sys_perf_task_open - open a performance counter, associate it to a task/cpu
+ * sys_perf_counter_open - open a performance counter, associate it to a task/cpu
*
* @hw_event_uptr: event type attributes for monitoring/sampling
* @pid: target pid
* @cpu: target cpu
* @group_fd: group leader counter fd
*/
-SYSCALL_DEFINE4(perf_counter_open,
+SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_counter_open,
const struct perf_counter_hw_event __user *, hw_event_uptr,
- pid_t, pid, int, cpu, int, group_fd)
+ pid_t, pid, int, cpu, int, group_fd, unsigned long, flags)
{
struct perf_counter *counter, *group_leader;
struct perf_counter_hw_event hw_event;
@@ -1703,6 +1703,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(perf_counter_open,
int fput_needed2 = 0;
int ret;
+ /* for future expandability... */
+ if (flags)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if (copy_from_user(&hw_event, hw_event_uptr, sizeof(hw_event)) != 0)
return -EFAULT;