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
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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rtmutex-debug.h
/*
 * RT-Mutexes: blocking mutual exclusion locks with PI support
 *
 * started by Ingo Molnar and Thomas Gleixner:
 *
 *  Copyright (C) 2004-2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
 *  Copyright (C) 2006, Timesys Corp., Thomas Gleixner <tglx@timesys.com>
 *
 * This file contains macros used solely by rtmutex.c. Debug version.
 */

extern void
rt_mutex_deadlock_account_lock(struct rt_mutex *lock, struct task_struct *task);
extern void rt_mutex_deadlock_account_unlock(struct task_struct *task);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_init_waiter(struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_free_waiter(struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_init(struct rt_mutex *lock, const char *name);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_lock(struct rt_mutex *lock);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_unlock(struct rt_mutex *lock);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_proxy_lock(struct rt_mutex *lock,
				      struct task_struct *powner);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_proxy_unlock(struct rt_mutex *lock);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_deadlock(int detect, struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter,
				    struct rt_mutex *lock);
extern void debug_rt_mutex_print_deadlock(struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter);
# define debug_rt_mutex_reset_waiter(w)			\
	do { (w)->deadlock_lock = NULL; } while (0)

static inline int debug_rt_mutex_detect_deadlock(struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter,
						 int detect)
{
	return (waiter != NULL);
}
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