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Revision 7f453c24b95a085fc7bd35d53b33abc4dc5a048b authored by Peter Zijlstra on 21 July 2009, 11:19:40 UTC, committed by Peter Zijlstra on 22 July 2009, 16:05:56 UTC 
perf_counter: PERF_SAMPLE_ID and inherited counters
 
Anton noted that for inherited counters the counter-id as provided by
PERF_SAMPLE_ID isn't mappable to the id found through PERF_RECORD_ID
because each inherited counter gets its own id.

His suggestion was to always return the parent counter id, since that
is the primary counter id as exposed. However, these inherited
counters have a unique identifier so that events like
PERF_EVENT_PERIOD and PERF_EVENT_THROTTLE can be specific about which
counter gets modified, which is important when trying to normalize the
sample streams.

This patch removes PERF_EVENT_PERIOD in favour of PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD,
which is more useful anyway, since changing periods became a lot more
common than initially thought -- rendering PERF_EVENT_PERIOD the less
useful solution (also, PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD reports the more accurate
value, since it reports the value used to trigger the overflow,
whereas PERF_EVENT_PERIOD simply reports the requested period changed,
which might only take effect on the next cycle).

This still leaves us PERF_EVENT_THROTTLE to consider, but since that
_should_ be a rare occurrence, and linking it to a primary id is the
most useful bit to diagnose the problem, we introduce a
PERF_SAMPLE_STREAM_ID, for those few cases where the full
reconstruction is important.

[Does change the ABI a little, but I see no other way out]

Suggested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1248095846.15751.8781.camel@twins>
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backtracetest.c 
/*
 * Simple stack backtrace regression test module
 *
 * (C) Copyright 2008 Intel Corporation
 * Author: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2
 * of the License.
 */

#include <linux/completion.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/stacktrace.h>

static void backtrace_test_normal(void)
{
	printk("Testing a backtrace from process context.\n");
	printk("The following trace is a kernel self test and not a bug!\n");

	dump_stack();
}

static DECLARE_COMPLETION(backtrace_work);

static void backtrace_test_irq_callback(unsigned long data)
{
	dump_stack();
	complete(&backtrace_work);
}

static DECLARE_TASKLET(backtrace_tasklet, &backtrace_test_irq_callback, 0);

static void backtrace_test_irq(void)
{
	printk("Testing a backtrace from irq context.\n");
	printk("The following trace is a kernel self test and not a bug!\n");

	init_completion(&backtrace_work);
	tasklet_schedule(&backtrace_tasklet);
	wait_for_completion(&backtrace_work);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE
static void backtrace_test_saved(void)
{
	struct stack_trace trace;
	unsigned long entries[8];

	printk("Testing a saved backtrace.\n");
	printk("The following trace is a kernel self test and not a bug!\n");

	trace.nr_entries = 0;
	trace.max_entries = ARRAY_SIZE(entries);
	trace.entries = entries;
	trace.skip = 0;

	save_stack_trace(&trace);
	print_stack_trace(&trace, 0);
}
#else
static void backtrace_test_saved(void)
{
	printk("Saved backtrace test skipped.\n");
}
#endif

static int backtrace_regression_test(void)
{
	printk("====[ backtrace testing ]===========\n");

	backtrace_test_normal();
	backtrace_test_irq();
	backtrace_test_saved();

	printk("====[ end of backtrace testing ]====\n");
	return 0;
}

static void exitf(void)
{
}

module_init(backtrace_regression_test);
module_exit(exitf);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>");
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