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perfcounters: provide expansion room in the ABI

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Impact: ABI change

This expands several fields in the perf_counter_hw_event struct and adds
a "flags" argument to the perf_counter_open system call, in order that
features can be added in future without ABI changes.

In particular the record_type field is expanded to 64 bits, and the
space for flag bits has been expanded from 32 to 64 bits.

This also adds some new fields:

* read_format (64 bits) is intended to provide a way to specify what
  userspace wants to get back when it does a read() on a simple
  (non-interrupting) counter;

* exclude_idle (1 bit) provides a way for userspace to ask that events
  that occur when the cpu is idle be excluded;

* extra_config_len will provide a way for userspace to supply an
  arbitrary amount of extra machine-specific PMU configuration data
  immediately following the perf_counter_hw_event struct, to allow
  sophisticated users to program things such as instruction matching
  CAMs and address range registers;

* __reserved_3 and __reserved_4 provide space for future expansion.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Paul Mackerras 2009-03-04 20:36:51 +11:00
commit 2743a5b0fa
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@ -69,9 +69,10 @@ struct perf_counter_hw_event {
__s64 type;
__u64 irq_period;
__u32 record_type;
__u64 record_type;
__u64 read_format;
__u32 disabled : 1, /* off by default */
__u64 disabled : 1, /* off by default */
nmi : 1, /* NMI sampling */
raw : 1, /* raw event type */
inherit : 1, /* children inherit it */
@ -80,10 +81,15 @@ struct perf_counter_hw_event {
exclude_user : 1, /* don't count user */
exclude_kernel : 1, /* ditto kernel */
exclude_hv : 1, /* ditto hypervisor */
exclude_idle : 1, /* don't count when idle */
__reserved_1 : 23;
__reserved_1 : 55;
__u32 extra_config_len;
__u32 __reserved_4;
__u64 __reserved_2;
__u64 __reserved_3;
};
/*