perfcounters: provide expansion room in the ABI

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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index 28ef2be839c7..ab1d77247395 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -698,5 +698,5 @@ int kernel_execve(const char *filename, char *const argv[], char *const envp[]);
 
 asmlinkage long sys_perf_counter_open(
 		const struct perf_counter_hw_event __user *hw_event_uptr,
-		pid_t pid, int cpu, int group_fd);
+		pid_t pid, int cpu, int group_fd, unsigned long flags);
 #endif