From 4dc0da86967d5463708631d02a70cfed5b104884 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Avi Kivity Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:42:35 +0300 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c') diff --git a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c index 086adf25a55e..b7971d6f38bf 100644 --- a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c +++ b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c @@ -431,9 +431,11 @@ int register_perf_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp) struct perf_event * register_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event_attr *attr, perf_overflow_handler_t triggered, + void *context, struct task_struct *tsk) { - return perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, -1, tsk, triggered); + return perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, -1, tsk, triggered, + context); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_user_hw_breakpoint); @@ -502,7 +504,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_hw_breakpoint); */ struct perf_event * __percpu * register_wide_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event_attr *attr, - perf_overflow_handler_t triggered) + perf_overflow_handler_t triggered, + void *context) { struct perf_event * __percpu *cpu_events, **pevent, *bp; long err; @@ -515,7 +518,8 @@ register_wide_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event_attr *attr, get_online_cpus(); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) { pevent = per_cpu_ptr(cpu_events, cpu); - bp = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, cpu, NULL, triggered); + bp = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, cpu, NULL, + triggered, context); *pevent = bp; -- cgit v1.2.1