perf/core: Add a 'flags' parameter to the PMU transactional interfaces

Currently, the PMU interface allows reading only one counter at a time.
But some PMUs like the 24x7 counters in Power, support reading several
counters at once. To leveage this functionality, extend the transaction
interface to support a "transaction type".

The first type, PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD, refers to the existing transactions,
i.e. used to _schedule_ all the events on the PMU as a group. A second
transaction type, PERF_PMU_TXN_READ, will be used in a follow-on patch,
by the 24x7 counters to read several counters at once.

Extend the transaction interfaces to the PMU to accept a 'txn_flags'
parameter and use this parameter to ignore any transactions that are
not of type PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD.

Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for his input.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[peterz: s390 compile fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441336073-22750-3-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Sukadev Bhattiprolu 2015-09-03 20:07:45 -07:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 845583767c
commit fbbe070115
7 changed files with 153 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ struct perf_event;
*/
#define PERF_EVENT_TXN 0x1
#define PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD 0x1 /* txn to add/schedule event on PMU */
/**
* pmu::capabilities flags
*/
@ -331,20 +333,26 @@ struct pmu {
*
* Start the transaction, after this ->add() doesn't need to
* do schedulability tests.
*
* Optional.
*/
void (*start_txn) (struct pmu *pmu); /* optional */
void (*start_txn) (struct pmu *pmu, unsigned int txn_flags);
/*
* If ->start_txn() disabled the ->add() schedulability test
* then ->commit_txn() is required to perform one. On success
* the transaction is closed. On error the transaction is kept
* open until ->cancel_txn() is called.
*
* Optional.
*/
int (*commit_txn) (struct pmu *pmu); /* optional */
int (*commit_txn) (struct pmu *pmu);
/*
* Will cancel the transaction, assumes ->del() is called
* for each successful ->add() during the transaction.
*
* Optional.
*/
void (*cancel_txn) (struct pmu *pmu); /* optional */
void (*cancel_txn) (struct pmu *pmu);
/*
* Will return the value for perf_event_mmap_page::index for this event,