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| author | Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> | 2016-03-28 06:41:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-03-31 10:30:45 +0200 |
| commit | 86e7972f690c1017fd086cdfe53d8524e68c661c (patch) | |
| tree | 81de100c02a7436701f2780f907039f4c16b8275 /include/linux/perf_event.h | |
| parent | 0a74c5b3d20d2a8693848b6ae4f1a97624f5b781 (diff) | |
perf/ring_buffer: Introduce new ioctl options to pause and resume the ring-buffer
Add new ioctl() to pause/resume ring-buffer output.
In some situations we want to read from the ring-buffer only when we
ensure nothing can write to the ring-buffer during reading. Without
this patch we have to turn off all events attached to this ring-buffer
to achieve this.
This patch is a prerequisite to enable overwrite support for the
perf ring-buffer support. Following commits will introduce new methods
support reading from overwrite ring buffer. Before reading, caller
must ensure the ring buffer is frozen, or the reading is unreliable.
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <pi3orama@163.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459147292-239310-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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