From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 15:50:23 +0000 (+0200) Subject: perf_counter: add ioctl(PERF_COUNTER_IOC_RESET) X-Git-Tag: v2.6.31-rc1~383^2~300 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6de6a7b95705b859b61430fa3afa1403034eb3e6;p=profile%2Fivi%2Fkernel-x86-ivi.git perf_counter: add ioctl(PERF_COUNTER_IOC_RESET) Provide a way to reset an existing counter - this eases PAPI libraries around perfcounters. Similar to read() it doesn't collapse pending child counters. [ Impact: new perfcounter fd ioctl method to reset counters ] Suggested-by: Corey Ashford Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras LKML-Reference: <20090505155437.022272933@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h index 17b6310..0fcbf34 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h @@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ struct perf_counter_hw_event { #define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_ENABLE _IO ('$', 0) #define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_DISABLE _IO ('$', 1) #define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_REFRESH _IOW('$', 2, u32) +#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_RESET _IO ('$', 3) /* * Structure of the page that can be mapped via mmap diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c index ba5e921..6e6834e 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_counter.c +++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c @@ -1288,6 +1288,11 @@ static unsigned int perf_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait) return events; } +static void perf_counter_reset(struct perf_counter *counter) +{ + atomic_set(&counter->count, 0); +} + static long perf_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) { struct perf_counter *counter = file->private_data; @@ -1303,6 +1308,9 @@ static long perf_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) case PERF_COUNTER_IOC_REFRESH: perf_counter_refresh(counter, arg); break; + case PERF_COUNTER_IOC_RESET: + perf_counter_reset(counter); + break; default: err = -ENOTTY; }