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authorWang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>2016-05-20 16:38:23 (GMT)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-05-20 17:54:23 (GMT)
commitb90dc17a5d14a881f9bb3b58edb3d71075d58afb (patch)
treee621aa3d42c009475f758375b76d4ef755520bd6 /tools/perf/util/evsel.h
parent408cf677073a5d1a7343bc6430a7297ba7b280d4 (diff)
downloadlinux-b90dc17a5d14a881f9bb3b58edb3d71075d58afb.tar.xz
perf evsel: Add overwrite attribute and check write_backward
Add 'overwrite' attribute to evsel to mark whether this event is overwritable. The following commits will support syntax like: # perf record -e cycles/overwrite/ ... An overwritable evsel requires kernel support for the perf_event_attr.write_backward ring buffer feature. Add it to perf_missing_feature. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463762315-155689-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
index 8a644fe..c1f1015 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ struct perf_evsel {
bool tracking;
bool per_pkg;
bool precise_max;
+ bool overwrite;
/* parse modifier helper */
int exclude_GH;
int nr_members;