perf_counter: provide pagefault software events
We use the generic software counter infrastructure to provide
page fault events.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index a03b727..c872575 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include <linux/tty.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/perf_counter.h>
#include <asm-generic/sections.h>
@@ -1044,6 +1045,8 @@
if (unlikely(error_code & PF_RSVD))
pgtable_bad(regs, error_code, address);
+ perf_swcounter_event(PERF_COUNT_PAGE_FAULTS, 1, 0, regs);
+
/*
* If we're in an interrupt, have no user context or are running
* in an atomic region then we must not take the fault: