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Commit 880ca15a authored by Paul Mackerras's avatar Paul Mackerras Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf_counter: Allow software counters to count while task is not running



This changes perf_swcounter_match() so that per-task software
counters can count events that occur while their associated
task is not running.  This will allow us to use the generic
software counter code for counting task migrations, which can
occur while the task is not scheduled in.

To do this, we have to distinguish between the situations where
the counter is inactive because its task has been scheduled
out, and those where the counter is inactive because it is part
of a group that was not able to go on the PMU.  In the former
case we want the counter to count, but not in the latter case.
If the context is active, we have the latter case.  If the
context is inactive then we need to know whether the counter
was counting when the context was last active, which we can
determine by comparing its ->tstamp_stopped timestamp with the
context's timestamp.

This also folds three checks in perf_swcounter_match, checking
perf_event_raw(), perf_event_type() and perf_event_id()
individually, into a single 64-bit comparison on
counter->hw_event.config, as an optimization.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18979.34810.259718.955621@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 25346b93
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