linux/include
Peter Zijlstra 7b732a7504 perf_counter: new output ABI - part 1
Impact: Rework the perfcounter output ABI

use sys_read() only for instant data and provide mmap() output for all
async overflow data.

The first mmap() determines the size of the output buffer. The mmap()
size must be a PAGE_SIZE multiple of 1+pages, where pages must be a
power of 2 or 0. Further mmap()s of the same fd must have the same
size. Once all maps are gone, you can again mmap() with a new size.

In case of 0 extra pages there is no data output and the first page
only contains meta data.

When there are data pages, a poll() event will be generated for each
full page of data. Furthermore, the output is circular. This means
that although 1 page is a valid configuration, its useless, since
we'll start overwriting it the instant we report a full page.

Future work will focus on the output format (currently maintained)
where we'll likey want each entry denoted by a header which includes a
type and length.

Further future work will allow to splice() the fd, also containing the
async overflow data -- splice() would be mutually exclusive with
mmap() of the data.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090323172417.470536358@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:27 +02:00
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acpi ACPI: support acpi_device_ops .notify methods 2009-04-05 02:25:07 -04:00
asm-arm
asm-frv Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linus 2009-04-02 00:49:02 +02:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-04-05 11:04:19 -07:00
asm-h8300
asm-m32r Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-04-05 11:04:19 -07:00
asm-mn10300 Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linus 2009-04-02 00:49:02 +02:00
crypto
drm drm: remove unused "can_grow" parameter from drm_crtc_helper_initial_config 2009-04-03 10:21:44 +10:00
keys
linux perf_counter: new output ABI - part 1 2009-04-06 09:30:27 +02:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (11313): v4l2-subdev: add enum_framesizes and enum_frameintervals. 2009-03-30 12:43:49 -03:00
mtd make MTD headers use strict integer types 2009-03-26 18:14:17 +01:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-04-02 21:05:30 -07:00
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rdma Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2009-03-26 15:54:36 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] iscsi class: remove host no argument from session creation callout 2009-03-13 15:29:39 -05:00
sound V4L/DVB (10771): tea575x-tuner: convert it to V4L2 API 2009-03-30 12:43:02 -03:00
trace tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction 2009-04-02 00:50:30 +02:00
video fbdev: update s1d13xxxfb to differ between revisions and production ids 2009-04-01 08:59:32 -07:00
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