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authorPeter Zijlstra2013-07-16 17:09:07 +0200
committerIngo Molnar2013-07-23 12:17:08 +0200
commita5cdd40c9877e9aba704c020fd65d26b5cfecf18 (patch)
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parentkprobes/x86: Call out into INT3 handler directly instead of using notifier (diff)
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perf: Update perf_event_type documentation
Due to a discussion with Adrian I had a good look at the perf_event_type record layout and found the documentation to be somewhat unclear. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130716150907.GL23818@dyad.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h18
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index 0b1df41691e8..00d8274730b4 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -478,6 +478,16 @@ enum perf_event_type {
* file will be supported by older perf tools, with these new optional
* fields being ignored.
*
+ * struct sample_id {
+ * { u32 pid, tid; } && PERF_SAMPLE_TID
+ * { u64 time; } && PERF_SAMPLE_TIME
+ * { u64 id; } && PERF_SAMPLE_ID
+ * { u64 stream_id;} && PERF_SAMPLE_STREAM_ID
+ * { u32 cpu, res; } && PERF_SAMPLE_CPU
+ * } && perf_event_attr::sample_id_all
+ */
+
+ /*
* The MMAP events record the PROT_EXEC mappings so that we can
* correlate userspace IPs to code. They have the following structure:
*
@@ -498,6 +508,7 @@ enum perf_event_type {
* struct perf_event_header header;
* u64 id;
* u64 lost;
+ * struct sample_id sample_id;
* };
*/
PERF_RECORD_LOST = 2,
@@ -508,6 +519,7 @@ enum perf_event_type {
*
* u32 pid, tid;
* char comm[];
+ * struct sample_id sample_id;
* };
*/
PERF_RECORD_COMM = 3,
@@ -518,6 +530,7 @@ enum perf_event_type {
* u32 pid, ppid;
* u32 tid, ptid;
* u64 time;
+ * struct sample_id sample_id;
* };
*/
PERF_RECORD_EXIT = 4,
@@ -528,6 +541,7 @@ enum perf_event_type {
* u64 time;
* u64 id;
* u64 stream_id;
+ * struct sample_id sample_id;
* };
*/
PERF_RECORD_THROTTLE = 5,
@@ -539,6 +553,7 @@ enum perf_event_type {
* u32 pid, ppid;
* u32 tid, ptid;
* u64 time;
+ * struct sample_id sample_id;
* };
*/
PERF_RECORD_FORK = 7,
@@ -549,6 +564,7 @@ enum perf_event_type {
* u32 pid, tid;
*
* struct read_format values;
+ * struct sample_id sample_id;
* };
*/
PERF_RECORD_READ = 8,
@@ -596,7 +612,7 @@ enum perf_event_type {
* u64 dyn_size; } && PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER
*
* { u64 weight; } && PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT
- * { u64 data_src; } && PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC
+ * { u64 data_src; } && PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC
* };
*/
PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE = 9,