From 86e7972f690c1017fd086cdfe53d8524e68c661c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wang Nan Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 06:41:29 +0000 Subject: perf/ring_buffer: Introduce new ioctl options to pause and resume the ring-buffer Add new ioctl() to pause/resume ring-buffer output. In some situations we want to read from the ring-buffer only when we ensure nothing can write to the ring-buffer during reading. Without this patch we have to turn off all events attached to this ring-buffer to achieve this. This patch is a prerequisite to enable overwrite support for the perf ring-buffer support. Following commits will introduce new methods support reading from overwrite ring buffer. Before reading, caller must ensure the ring buffer is frozen, or the reading is unreliable. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Brendan Gregg Cc: He Kuang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: Zefan Li Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459147292-239310-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/internal.h | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/events/internal.h') diff --git a/kernel/events/internal.h b/kernel/events/internal.h index 2b229fdcfc09..2d67327d9ad9 100644 --- a/kernel/events/internal.h +++ b/kernel/events/internal.h @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ struct ring_buffer { #endif int nr_pages; /* nr of data pages */ int overwrite; /* can overwrite itself */ + int paused; /* can write into ring buffer */ atomic_t poll; /* POLL_ for wakeups */ @@ -64,6 +65,14 @@ static inline void rb_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu_head) rb_free(rb); } +static inline void rb_toggle_paused(struct ring_buffer *rb, bool pause) +{ + if (!pause && rb->nr_pages) + rb->paused = 0; + else + rb->paused = 1; +} + extern struct ring_buffer * rb_alloc(int nr_pages, long watermark, int cpu, int flags); extern void perf_event_wakeup(struct perf_event *event); -- cgit