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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aes_ccm.h
/*
 * Copyright 2003-2004, Instant802 Networks, Inc.
 * Copyright 2006, Devicescape Software, Inc.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
 * published by the Free Software Foundation.
 */

#ifndef AES_CCM_H
#define AES_CCM_H

#include <linux/crypto.h>

#define AES_BLOCK_LEN 16

struct crypto_cipher *ieee80211_aes_key_setup_encrypt(const u8 key[]);
void ieee80211_aes_ccm_encrypt(struct crypto_cipher *tfm, u8 *scratch,
			       u8 *data, size_t data_len,
			       u8 *cdata, u8 *mic);
int ieee80211_aes_ccm_decrypt(struct crypto_cipher *tfm, u8 *scratch,
			      u8 *cdata, size_t data_len,
			      u8 *mic, u8 *data);
void ieee80211_aes_key_free(struct crypto_cipher *tfm);

#endif /* AES_CCM_H */
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