Allow cpu wide counters to profile userspace by providing what process the sample belongs to. This raises the first issue with the output type, lots of these options: group, tid, callchain, etc.. are non-exclusive and could be combined, suggesting a bitfield. However, things like the mmap() data stream doesn't fit in that. How to split the type field... Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra --- include/linux/perf_counter.h | 5 ++++- kernel/perf_counter.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/perf_counter.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/perf_counter.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/perf_counter.h @@ -127,8 +127,9 @@ struct perf_counter_hw_event { exclude_kernel : 1, /* ditto kernel */ exclude_hv : 1, /* ditto hypervisor */ exclude_idle : 1, /* don't count when idle */ + include_tid : 1, /* include the tid */ - __reserved_1 : 55; + __reserved_1 : 54; __u32 extra_config_len; __u32 __reserved_4; @@ -164,6 +165,8 @@ struct perf_event_header { enum perf_event_type { PERF_EVENT_IP = 0, PERF_EVENT_GROUP = 1, + + __PERF_EVENT_TID = 0x100, }; #ifdef __KERNEL__ Index: linux-2.6/kernel/perf_counter.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/perf_counter.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/perf_counter.c @@ -1521,16 +1521,30 @@ out: static void perf_output_simple(struct perf_counter *counter, int nmi, struct pt_regs *regs) { + unsigned int size; struct { struct perf_event_header header; u64 ip; + u32 pid, tid; } event; event.header.type = PERF_EVENT_IP; - event.header.size = sizeof(event); event.ip = instruction_pointer(regs); - perf_output_write(counter, nmi, &event, sizeof(event)); + size = sizeof(event); + + if (counter->hw_event.include_tid) { + /* namespace issues */ + event.pid = current->group_leader->pid; + event.tid = current->pid; + + event.header.type |= __PERF_EVENT_TID; + } else + size -= sizeof(u64); + + event.header.size = size; + + perf_output_write(counter, nmi, &event, size); } static void perf_output_group(struct perf_counter *counter, int nmi) -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/