perf_counter: PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE is a hardware counter too
is_software_counter() was missing the new HW_CACHE category.
( This could have caused some counter scheduling artifacts
with mixed sw and hw counters and counter groups. )
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
index 6e13395..7c4f32f 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
@@ -621,7 +621,8 @@
static inline int is_software_counter(struct perf_counter *counter)
{
return (counter->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_RAW) &&
- (counter->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE);
+ (counter->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) &&
+ (counter->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE);
}
extern void perf_swcounter_event(u32, u64, int, struct pt_regs *, u64);