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Commit 2743a5b0 authored by Paul Mackerras's avatar Paul Mackerras
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perfcounters: provide expansion room in the ABI



Impact: ABI change

This expands several fields in the perf_counter_hw_event struct and adds
a "flags" argument to the perf_counter_open system call, in order that
features can be added in future without ABI changes.

In particular the record_type field is expanded to 64 bits, and the
space for flag bits has been expanded from 32 to 64 bits.

This also adds some new fields:

* read_format (64 bits) is intended to provide a way to specify what
  userspace wants to get back when it does a read() on a simple
  (non-interrupting) counter;

* exclude_idle (1 bit) provides a way for userspace to ask that events
  that occur when the cpu is idle be excluded;

* extra_config_len will provide a way for userspace to supply an
  arbitrary amount of extra machine-specific PMU configuration data
  immediately following the perf_counter_hw_event struct, to allow
  sophisticated users to program things such as instruction matching
  CAMs and address range registers;

* __reserved_3 and __reserved_4 provide space for future expansion.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
parent a1ef58f4
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