From 52ba4b0b99770e892f43da1238f437155acb8b58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Like Xu Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 18:52:39 +0800 Subject: perf/core: Provide a kernel-internal interface to pause perf_event Exporting perf_event_pause() as an external accessor for kernel users (such as KVM) who may do both disable perf_event and read count with just one time to hold perf_event_ctx_lock. Also the value could be reset optionally. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Like Xu Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- include/linux/perf_event.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h') diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index d601df36e671..e9768bfc76f6 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -1337,6 +1337,7 @@ extern void perf_event_disable_inatomic(struct perf_event *event); extern void perf_event_task_tick(void); extern int perf_event_account_interrupt(struct perf_event *event); extern int perf_event_period(struct perf_event *event, u64 value); +extern u64 perf_event_pause(struct perf_event *event, bool reset); #else /* !CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS: */ static inline void * perf_aux_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle, @@ -1420,6 +1421,10 @@ static inline int perf_event_period(struct perf_event *event, u64 value) { return -EINVAL; } +static inline u64 perf_event_pause(struct perf_event *event, bool reset) +{ + return 0; +} #endif #if defined(CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS) && defined(CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL) -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b