perf: Add AUX record
When there's new data in the AUX space, output a record indicating its
offset and size and a set of flags, such as PERF_AUX_FLAG_TRUNCATED, to
mean the described data was truncated to fit in the ring buffer.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-7-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index 6c5013a..8904ad3 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -768,6 +768,20 @@
*/
PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 = 10,
+ /*
+ * Records that new data landed in the AUX buffer part.
+ *
+ * struct {
+ * struct perf_event_header header;
+ *
+ * u64 aux_offset;
+ * u64 aux_size;
+ * u64 flags;
+ * struct sample_id sample_id;
+ * };
+ */
+ PERF_RECORD_AUX = 11,
+
PERF_RECORD_MAX, /* non-ABI */
};
@@ -785,6 +799,11 @@
PERF_CONTEXT_MAX = (__u64)-4095,
};
+/**
+ * PERF_RECORD_AUX::flags bits
+ */
+#define PERF_AUX_FLAG_TRUNCATED 0x01 /* record was truncated to fit */
+
#define PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP (1UL << 0)
#define PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT (1UL << 1)
#define PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP (1UL << 2) /* pid=cgroup id, per-cpu mode only */