From 1a5941312414c71dece6717da9a0fa1303127afa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Shishkin Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 14:18:18 +0200 Subject: perf: Add wakeup watermark control to the AUX area When AUX area gets a certain amount of new data, we want to wake up userspace to collect it. This adds a new control to specify how much data will cause a wakeup. This is then passed down to pmu drivers via output handle's "wakeup" field, so that the driver can find the nearest point where it can generate an interrupt. We repurpose __reserved_2 in the event attribute for this, even though it was never checked to be zero before, aux_watermark will only matter for new AUX-aware code, so the old code should still be fine. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Kaixu Xia Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: acme@infradead.org Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: kan.liang@intel.com Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-10-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/internal.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/events/internal.h') diff --git a/kernel/events/internal.h b/kernel/events/internal.h index ffd51d9f5945..9f6ce9ba4a04 100644 --- a/kernel/events/internal.h +++ b/kernel/events/internal.h @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ struct ring_buffer { local_t lost; /* nr records lost */ long watermark; /* wakeup watermark */ + long aux_watermark; /* poll crap */ spinlock_t event_lock; struct list_head event_list; @@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ struct ring_buffer { /* AUX area */ local_t aux_head; local_t aux_nest; + local_t aux_wakeup; unsigned long aux_pgoff; int aux_nr_pages; int aux_overwrite; @@ -57,7 +59,7 @@ extern struct ring_buffer * rb_alloc(int nr_pages, long watermark, int cpu, int flags); extern void perf_event_wakeup(struct perf_event *event); extern int rb_alloc_aux(struct ring_buffer *rb, struct perf_event *event, - pgoff_t pgoff, int nr_pages, int flags); + pgoff_t pgoff, int nr_pages, long watermark, int flags); extern void rb_free_aux(struct ring_buffer *rb); extern struct ring_buffer *ring_buffer_get(struct perf_event *event); extern void ring_buffer_put(struct ring_buffer *rb); -- cgit v1.2.3