perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events
A few events are interesting not only for a current task.
For example, sched_stat_* events are interesting for a task
which wakes up. For this reason, it will be good if such
events will be delivered to a target task too.
Now a target task can be set by using __perf_task().
The original idea and a draft patch belongs to Peter Zijlstra.
I need these events for profiling sleep times. sched_switch is used for
getting callchains and sched_stat_* is used for getting time periods.
These events are combined in user space, then it can be analyzed by
perf tools.
Inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342016098-213063-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 76c5c8b..7602ccb 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -1272,7 +1272,8 @@
extern void perf_event_init(void);
extern void perf_tp_event(u64 addr, u64 count, void *record,
int entry_size, struct pt_regs *regs,
- struct hlist_head *head, int rctx);
+ struct hlist_head *head, int rctx,
+ struct task_struct *task);
extern void perf_bp_event(struct perf_event *event, void *data);
#ifndef perf_misc_flags