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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/perf_event.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index fe156a8170aa..9b60bb89d86a 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -683,7 +683,9 @@ struct perf_event { /* * timestamp shadows the actual context timing but it can * be safely used in NMI interrupt context. It reflects the - * context time as it was when the event was last scheduled in. + * context time as it was when the event was last scheduled in, + * or when ctx_sched_in failed to schedule the event because we + * run out of PMC. * * ctx_time already accounts for ctx->timestamp. Therefore to * compute ctx_time for a sample, simply add perf_clock(). |