From 86e7972f690c1017fd086cdfe53d8524e68c661c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wang Nan Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 06:41:29 +0000 Subject: perf/ring_buffer: Introduce new ioctl options to pause and resume the ring-buffer Add new ioctl() to pause/resume ring-buffer output. In some situations we want to read from the ring-buffer only when we ensure nothing can write to the ring-buffer during reading. Without this patch we have to turn off all events attached to this ring-buffer to achieve this. This patch is a prerequisite to enable overwrite support for the perf ring-buffer support. Following commits will introduce new methods support reading from overwrite ring buffer. Before reading, caller must ensure the ring buffer is frozen, or the reading is unreliable. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Brendan Gregg Cc: He Kuang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: Zefan Li Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459147292-239310-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h index 1afe9623c1a7..a3c19034d5f8 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -401,6 +401,7 @@ struct perf_event_attr { #define PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER _IOW('$', 6, char *) #define PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID _IOR('$', 7, __u64 *) #define PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF _IOW('$', 8, __u32) +#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_PAUSE_OUTPUT _IOW('$', 9, __u32) enum perf_event_ioc_flags { PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP = 1U << 0, -- cgit v1.2.3