perf: Add data_{offset,size} to user_page
authorAlexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:18:10 +0000 (14:18 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 2 Apr 2015 15:13:32 +0000 (17:13 +0200)
commit5677cd32fbc2ceea2181f0a3198df8072b43c47c
treeb05546c3ad7ac82b7120f9d9b7fc113748ce0987
parentedcc105be6e3ac72cf38e77043474177e6f58582
perf: Add data_{offset,size} to user_page

Currently, the actual perf ring buffer is one page into the mmap area,
following the user page and the userspace follows this convention. This
patch adds data_{offset,size} fields to user_page that can be used by
userspace instead for locating perf data in the mmap area. This is also
helpful when mapping existing or shared buffers if their size is not
known in advance.

Right now, it is made to follow the existing convention that

data_offset == PAGE_SIZE and
data_offset + data_size == mmap_size.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@infradead.org
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-2-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/events/core.c