tree ead6bd92a49b42ec0ca5bfee467e03e37656a6f1
parent 91d7753a45f8525dc75b6be01e427dc1c378dc16
author Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> 1344345639 +0200
committer Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> 1344611782 -0300

perf: Add perf_output_skip function to skip bytes in sample

Introducing perf_output_skip function to be able to skip data within the
perf ring buffer.

When writing data into perf ring buffer we first reserve needed place in
ring buffer and then copy the actual data.

There's a possibility we won't be able to fill all the reserved size
with data, so we need a way to skip the remaining bytes.

This is going to be useful when storing the user stack dump, where we
might end up with less data than we originally requested.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>