linux-sg2042/kernel/events
Andrew Vagin e6dab5ffab perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events
A few events are interesting not only for a current task.
For example, sched_stat_* events are interesting for a task
which wakes up. For this reason, it will be good if such
events will be delivered to a target task too.

Now a target task can be set by using __perf_task().

The original idea and a draft patch belongs to Peter Zijlstra.

I need these events for profiling sleep times. sched_switch is used for
getting callchains and sched_stat_* is used for getting time periods.
These events are combined in user space, then it can be analyzed by
perf tools.

Inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342016098-213063-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-31 17:02:05 +02:00
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Makefile uprobes: Move to kernel/events/ 2012-02-22 11:08:00 +01:00
callchain.c perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events 2012-07-31 17:02:05 +02:00
core.c perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events 2012-07-31 17:02:05 +02:00
hw_breakpoint.c Merge branch 'x86/cleanups' into perf/uprobes 2012-03-13 16:33:03 +01:00
internal.h perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events 2012-07-31 17:02:05 +02:00
ring_buffer.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-01-08 13:21:22 -08:00
uprobes.c uprobes: __replace_page() needs munlock_vma_page() 2012-07-30 11:27:25 +02:00