perf_counter: PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE is a hardware counter too
authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:56:09 +0000 (17:56 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:28:51 +0000 (14:28 +0200)
is_software_counter() was missing the new HW_CACHE category.

( This could have caused some counter scheduling artifacts
  with mixed sw and hw counters and counter groups. )

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
include/linux/perf_counter.h

index 6e13395..7c4f32f 100644 (file)
@@ -621,7 +621,8 @@ extern int perf_counter_overflow(struct perf_counter *counter, int nmi,
 static inline int is_software_counter(struct perf_counter *counter)
 {
        return (counter->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_RAW) &&
-               (counter->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE);
+               (counter->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) &&
+               (counter->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE);
 }
 
 extern void perf_swcounter_event(u32, u64, int, struct pt_regs *, u64);