From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com> When an event is disabled the "tracking" events selected by the 'mmap', 'comm' and 'task' bits of struct perf_event_attr, are also disabled. However, the information those events provide is necessary to resolve symbols for when the main event is re-enabled.
The "tracking" events can be kept enabled by putting them on another event, but that requires an event that otherwise does nothing. A new software event PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY is added for that purpose. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efa...@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eran...@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377975053-3811-2-git-send-email-adrian.hun...@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> --- include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h index 408b8c7..ca1d90b 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ enum perf_sw_ids { PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MAJ = 6, PERF_COUNT_SW_ALIGNMENT_FAULTS = 7, PERF_COUNT_SW_EMULATION_FAULTS = 8, + PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY = 9, PERF_COUNT_SW_MAX, /* non-ABI */ }; -- 1.8.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
