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authorPeter Zijlstra2010-05-18 11:12:48 +0200
committerIngo Molnar2010-05-18 18:35:49 +0200
commit6d1acfd5c6bfd5231c13a8f2858d7f2afbaa1b62 (patch)
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parentperf: Optimize the hotpath by converting the perf output buffer to local_t (diff)
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perf: Optimize perf_output_*() by avoiding local_xchg()
Since the x86 XCHG ins implies LOCK, avoid the use by using a sequence count instead. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index ce7667616fcb..fe50347dc645 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -804,6 +804,7 @@ struct perf_output_handle {
struct perf_mmap_data *data;
unsigned long head;
unsigned long offset;
+ unsigned long wakeup;
int nmi;
int sample;
};