linux/kernel/events
Avi Kivity 4dc0da8696 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>
2011-07-01 11:06:38 +02:00
..
core.c perf: Add context field to perf_event 2011-07-01 11:06:38 +02:00
hw_breakpoint.c perf: Add context field to perf_event 2011-07-01 11:06:38 +02:00
internal.h perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface 2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
Makefile perf: Split up buffer handling from core code 2011-06-09 12:57:54 +02:00
ring_buffer.c perf: Remove the perf_output_begin(.sample) argument 2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00