From 4dc0da86967d5463708631d02a70cfed5b104884 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Avi Kivity Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:42:35 +0300 Subject: perf: Add context field to perf_event The perf_event overflow handler does not receive any caller-derived argument, so many callers need to resort to looking up the perf_event in their local data structure. This is ugly and doesn't scale if a single callback services many perf_events. Fix by adding a context parameter to perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and derived hardware breakpoints APIs) and storing it in the perf_event. The field can be accessed from the callback as event->overflow_handler_context. All callers are updated. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/watchdog.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/watchdog.c') diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index a6708e677a0a..a933e3a0398b 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ static int watchdog_nmi_enable(int cpu) hw_nmi_watchdog_set_attr(wd_attr); /* Try to register using hardware perf events */ - event = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(wd_attr, cpu, NULL, watchdog_overflow_callback); + event = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(wd_attr, cpu, NULL, watchdog_overflow_callback, NULL); if (!IS_ERR(event)) { printk(KERN_INFO "NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.\n"); goto out_save; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b