On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 03:41:47PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: > Jiri Olsa [jo...@redhat.com] wrote: > | Adding new 'paused' perf_event_attr attribute bit. It sets > | the initial event state as paused, so it wont get started > | until it's triggered by toggling mechanism. > > There is a attr->disabled field which also leaves the event off by > default. Some comments distinguishing the two states will help ?
right, so the 'disabled' says the event is created as disabled the 'paused' says the event is enabled, it get's scheduled in/out but it's does not get started.. toggle event will do that I'll put more info on that into doc thanks, jirka -- 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/
