linux/kernel/events
Alexander Shishkin bed5b25ad9 perf: Add a pmu capability for "exclusive" events
Usually, pmus that do, for example, instruction tracing, would only ever
be able to have one event per task per cpu (or per perf_event_context). For
such pmus it makes sense to disallow creating conflicting events early on,
so as to provide consistent behavior for the user.

This patch adds a pmu capability that indicates such constraint on event
creation.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@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: acme@infradead.org
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/1422613866-113186-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-02 17:14:12 +02:00
..
callchain.c Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2014-10-15 07:48:18 +02:00
core.c perf: Add a pmu capability for "exclusive" events 2015-04-02 17:14:12 +02:00
hw_breakpoint.c perf: Remove type specific target pointers 2015-03-23 10:58:04 +01:00
internal.h perf: Add AUX area to ring buffer for raw data streams 2015-04-02 17:13:46 +02:00
Makefile ftrace: allow architectures to specify ftrace compile options 2015-01-29 09:19:19 +01:00
ring_buffer.c perf: Add a capability for AUX_NO_SG pmus to do software double buffering 2015-04-02 17:14:10 +02:00
uprobes.c Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2014-12-15 15:52:01 -08:00