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Date:	Tue, 3 Sep 2013 00:15:16 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Adrian Hunter <tipbot@...or.com>
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Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf: Add a dummy software event to keep tracking

Commit-ID:  fa0097ee690693006ab1aea6c01ad3c851b65c77
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/fa0097ee690693006ab1aea6c01ad3c851b65c77
Author:     Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
AuthorDate: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 21:50:51 +0300
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
CommitDate: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 14:58:19 -0300

perf: Add a dummy software event to keep tracking

When an event is disabled the "tracking" events selected by the 'mmap',
'comm' and 'task' bits of struct perf_event_attr, are also disabled.
However, the information those events provide is necessary to resolve
symbols for when the main event is re-enabled.

The "tracking" events can be kept enabled by putting them on another
event, but that requires an event that otherwise does nothing.  A new
software event PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY is added for that purpose.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377975053-3811-2-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index 408b8c7..ca1d90b 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ enum perf_sw_ids {
 	PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MAJ		= 6,
 	PERF_COUNT_SW_ALIGNMENT_FAULTS		= 7,
 	PERF_COUNT_SW_EMULATION_FAULTS		= 8,
+	PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY			= 9,
 
 	PERF_COUNT_SW_MAX,			/* non-ABI */
 };
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