Add APIs for software dummy event to track task/comm/mmap events
separately. The perf record will use them to save such events in a
separate mmap buffer to make it easy to index. This is a preparation of
multi-thread support which will come later.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org>
---
tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 46 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index 8d0b62361129..928a5750648d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -194,6 +194,36 @@ int perf_evlist__add_default(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
return -ENOMEM;
}
+int perf_evlist__add_dummy_tracking(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
+{
+ struct perf_event_attr attr = {
+ .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE,
+ .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY,
+ .exclude_kernel = 1,
+ };
+ struct perf_evsel *evsel;
+
+ event_attr_init(&attr);
+
+ evsel = perf_evsel__new(&attr);
+ if (evsel == NULL)
+ goto error;
+
+ /* use strdup() because free(evsel) assumes name is allocated */
+ evsel->name = strdup("dummy");
+ if (!evsel->name)
+ goto error_free;
+
+ perf_evlist__add(evlist, evsel);
+ perf_evlist__set_tracking_event(evlist, evsel);
+
+ return 0;
+error_free:
+ perf_evsel__delete(evsel);
+error:
+ return -ENOMEM;
+}
+
static int perf_evlist__add_attrs(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
struct perf_event_attr *attrs, size_t
nr_attrs)
{
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
index f07c984465f0..a278df8fbed3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ void perf_evlist__delete(struct perf_evlist *evlist);
void perf_evlist__add(struct perf_evlist *evlist, struct perf_evsel *entry);
int perf_evlist__add_default(struct perf_evlist *evlist);
+int perf_evlist__add_dummy_tracking(struct perf_evlist *evlist);
int __perf_evlist__add_default_attrs(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
struct perf_event_attr *attrs, size_t
nr_attrs);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
index dcf202aebe9f..80aeb3d84593 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
@@ -331,6 +331,21 @@ static inline bool perf_evsel__is_function_event(struct
perf_evsel *evsel)
#undef FUNCTION_EVENT
}
+/**
+ * perf_evsel__is_dummy_tracking - Return whether given evsel is a dummy
+ * event for tracking meta events only
+ *
+ * @evsel - evsel selector to be tested
+ *
+ * Return %true if event is a dummy tracking event
+ */
+static inline bool perf_evsel__is_dummy_tracking(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
+{
+ return evsel->attr.type == PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE &&
+ evsel->attr.config == PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY &&
+ evsel->attr.task == 1 && evsel->attr.mmap == 1;
+}
+
struct perf_attr_details {
bool freq;
bool verbose;
--
2.2.2
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