perf_counter: use misc field to widen type
Push the PERF_EVENT_COUNTER_OVERFLOW bit into the misc field so that
we can have the full 32bit for PERF_RECORD_ bits.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130408.891867663@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
index 5bd8817..4809ae1 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
@@ -201,8 +201,9 @@
__u32 data_head; /* head in the data section */
};
-#define PERF_EVENT_MISC_KERNEL (1 << 0)
-#define PERF_EVENT_MISC_USER (1 << 1)
+#define PERF_EVENT_MISC_KERNEL (1 << 0)
+#define PERF_EVENT_MISC_USER (1 << 1)
+#define PERF_EVENT_MISC_OVERFLOW (1 << 2)
struct perf_event_header {
__u32 type;
@@ -230,36 +231,27 @@
PERF_EVENT_MUNMAP = 2,
/*
- * Half the event type space is reserved for the counter overflow
- * bitfields, as found in hw_event.record_type.
- *
- * These events will have types of the form:
- * PERF_EVENT_COUNTER_OVERFLOW { | __PERF_EVENT_* } *
+ * When header.misc & PERF_EVENT_MISC_OVERFLOW the event_type field
+ * will be PERF_RECORD_*
*
* struct {
* struct perf_event_header header;
*
- * { u64 ip; } && __PERF_EVENT_IP
- * { u32 pid, tid; } && __PERF_EVENT_TID
+ * { u64 ip; } && PERF_RECORD_IP
+ * { u32 pid, tid; } && PERF_RECORD_TID
*
* { u64 nr;
- * { u64 event, val; } cnt[nr]; } && __PERF_EVENT_GROUP
+ * { u64 event, val; } cnt[nr]; } && PERF_RECORD_GROUP
*
* { u16 nr,
* hv,
* kernel,
* user;
- * u64 ips[nr]; } && __PERF_EVENT_CALLCHAIN
+ * u64 ips[nr]; } && PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN
*
- * { u64 time; } && __PERF_EVENT_TIME
+ * { u64 time; } && PERF_RECORD_TIME
* };
*/
- PERF_EVENT_COUNTER_OVERFLOW = 1UL << 31,
- __PERF_EVENT_IP = PERF_RECORD_IP,
- __PERF_EVENT_TID = PERF_RECORD_TID,
- __PERF_EVENT_GROUP = PERF_RECORD_GROUP,
- __PERF_EVENT_CALLCHAIN = PERF_RECORD_CALLCHAIN,
- __PERF_EVENT_TIME = PERF_RECORD_TIME,
};
#ifdef __KERNEL__