From 4dc0da86967d5463708631d02a70cfed5b104884 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Avi Kivity Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:42:35 +0300 Subject: perf: Add context field to perf_event The perf_event overflow handler does not receive any caller-derived argument, so many callers need to resort to looking up the perf_event in their local data structure. This is ugly and doesn't scale if a single callback services many perf_events. Fix by adding a context parameter to perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and derived hardware breakpoints APIs) and storing it in the perf_event. The field can be accessed from the callback as event->overflow_handler_context. All callers are updated. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/perf_event.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h') diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index a5f54b973bdb..2a08cacb1628 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -839,6 +839,7 @@ struct perf_event { u64 id; perf_overflow_handler_t overflow_handler; + void *overflow_handler_context; #ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING struct ftrace_event_call *tp_event; @@ -960,7 +961,8 @@ extern struct perf_event * perf_event_create_kernel_counter(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu, struct task_struct *task, - perf_overflow_handler_t callback); + perf_overflow_handler_t callback, + void *context); extern u64 perf_event_read_value(struct perf_event *event, u64 *enabled, u64 *running); -- cgit v1.2.3