perf: New helper function for pmu name

Introduce perf_pmu_name() helper function that returns the name of the
pmu. This gives us a generic way to get the name of a pmu regardless of
how an architecture identifies it internally.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/sh/kernel/perf_event.c
index 2cb9ad5..55fe89b 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/sh/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/sh/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -59,6 +59,15 @@ static inline int sh_pmu_initialized(void)
        return !!sh_pmu;
 }
 
+const char *perf_pmu_name(void)
+{
+       if (!sh_pmu)
+               return NULL;
+
+       return sh_pmu->name;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_pmu_name);
+
 int perf_num_counters(void)
 {
        if (!sh_pmu)

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 1a02192..33f08da 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -850,6 +850,7 @@ extern int perf_max_events;
 extern const struct pmu *hw_perf_event_init(struct perf_event *event);
 
 extern int perf_num_counters(void);
+extern const char *perf_pmu_name(void);
 extern void perf_event_task_sched_in(struct task_struct *task);
 extern void perf_event_task_sched_out(struct task_struct *task, struct task_struct *next);
 extern void perf_event_task_tick(struct task_struct *task);

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 403d180..e253469 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@ void __weak hw_perf_enable(void)             { barrier(); }
 
 void __weak perf_event_print_debug(void)       { }
 
+extern __weak const char *perf_pmu_name(void)
+{
+       return "pmu";
+}
+
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, perf_disable_count);
 
 void perf_disable(void)