From e6dab5ffab59e910ec0e3355f4a6f29f7a7be474 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Vagin Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:14:58 +0400 Subject: perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events A few events are interesting not only for a current task. For example, sched_stat_* events are interesting for a task which wakes up. For this reason, it will be good if such events will be delivered to a target task too. Now a target task can be set by using __perf_task(). The original idea and a draft patch belongs to Peter Zijlstra. I need these events for profiling sleep times. sched_switch is used for getting callchains and sched_stat_* is used for getting time periods. These events are combined in user space, then it can be analyzed by perf tools. Inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Arun Sharma Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342016098-213063-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c') diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c index 96fc73369099..60e4d7875672 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ static void perf_syscall_enter(void *ignore, struct pt_regs *regs, long id) (unsigned long *)&rec->args); head = this_cpu_ptr(sys_data->enter_event->perf_events); - perf_trace_buf_submit(rec, size, rctx, 0, 1, regs, head); + perf_trace_buf_submit(rec, size, rctx, 0, 1, regs, head, NULL); } int perf_sysenter_enable(struct ftrace_event_call *call) @@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ static void perf_syscall_exit(void *ignore, struct pt_regs *regs, long ret) rec->ret = syscall_get_return_value(current, regs); head = this_cpu_ptr(sys_data->exit_event->perf_events); - perf_trace_buf_submit(rec, size, rctx, 0, 1, regs, head); + perf_trace_buf_submit(rec, size, rctx, 0, 1, regs, head, NULL); } int perf_sysexit_enable(struct ftrace_event_call *call) -- cgit v1.2.3