tree e09071a62f2457b710ff69df3be1bff39340a4c6
parent 89d6c0b5bdbb1927775584dcf532d98b3efe1477
author Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> 1309362155 +0300
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 1309511198 +0200

perf: Add context field to perf_event

The perf_event overflow handler does not receive any caller-derived
argument, so many callers need to resort to looking up the perf_event
in their local data structure.  This is ugly and doesn't scale if a
single callback services many perf_events.

Fix by adding a context parameter to perf_event_create_kernel_counter()
(and derived hardware breakpoints APIs) and storing it in the perf_event.
The field can be accessed from the callback as event->overflow_handler_context.
All callers are updated.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>