Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

New features:

  - Introduce PERF_RECORD_SWITCH(_CPU_WIDE) and use it in 'record' to
    ask for context switches, allowing non priviledged tasks to know
    when they are switched in and out, which wasn't possible with
    the other context switch tracepoint and software events, see the
    patch description for a comprehensive justification (Adrian Hunter)

  - Stop collecting /proc/kallsyms in perf.data files, saving about
    4.5MB on a typical x86-64 system, use the the symbol resolution
    routines used in all the other tools (report, top, etc) now that
    we can ask libtraceevent to use perf's symbol resolution code.
    (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

User visible fixes:

  - Expose perf's symbol resolver to libtraceevent, so that its plugins can
    resolve tracepoint fields to kernel functions, like the 'function' field
    in the "timer:hrtimer_start tracepoint" (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

Infrastructure changes:

  - Map propagation of thread and cpu maps improvements, prep work for
    'perf stat' new features (Jiri Olsa)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index d97f84c080da..022d0acf7df0 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -330,7 +330,8 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
 				mmap2          :  1, /* include mmap with inode data     */
 				comm_exec      :  1, /* flag comm events that are due to an exec */
 				use_clockid    :  1, /* use @clockid for time fields */
-				__reserved_1   : 38;
+				context_switch :  1, /* context switch data */
+				__reserved_1   : 37;
 
 	union {
 		__u32		wakeup_events;	  /* wakeup every n events */
@@ -572,9 +573,11 @@ struct perf_event_mmap_page {
 /*
  * PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_DATA and PERF_RECORD_MISC_COMM_EXEC are used on
  * different events so can reuse the same bit position.
+ * Ditto PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT.
  */
 #define PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_DATA		(1 << 13)
 #define PERF_RECORD_MISC_COMM_EXEC		(1 << 13)
+#define PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT		(1 << 13)
 /*
  * Indicates that the content of PERF_SAMPLE_IP points to
  * the actual instruction that triggered the event. See also
@@ -818,6 +821,32 @@ enum perf_event_type {
 	 */
 	PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES		= 13,
 
+	/*
+	 * Records a context switch in or out (flagged by
+	 * PERF_RECORD_MISC_SWITCH_OUT). See also
+	 * PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE.
+	 *
+	 * struct {
+	 *	struct perf_event_header	header;
+	 *	struct sample_id		sample_id;
+	 * };
+	 */
+	PERF_RECORD_SWITCH			= 14,
+
+	/*
+	 * CPU-wide version of PERF_RECORD_SWITCH with next_prev_pid and
+	 * next_prev_tid that are the next (switching out) or previous
+	 * (switching in) pid/tid.
+	 *
+	 * struct {
+	 *	struct perf_event_header	header;
+	 *	u32				next_prev_pid;
+	 *	u32				next_prev_tid;
+	 *	struct sample_id		sample_id;
+	 * };
+	 */
+	PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE		= 15,
+
 	PERF_RECORD_MAX,			/* non-ABI */
 };