tracing/profile: Add filter support
- Add an ioctl to allocate a filter for a perf event.
- Free the filter when the associated perf event is to be freed.
- Do the filtering in perf_swevent_match().
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AD69546.8050401@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_counter.h b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
index 7b7fbf4..91a2b43 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_counter.h
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_RESET _IO ('$', 3)
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_PERIOD _IOW('$', 4, u64)
#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_SET_OUTPUT _IO ('$', 5)
+#define PERF_COUNTER_IOC_SET_FILTER _IOW('$', 6, char *)
enum perf_counter_ioc_flags {
PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP = 1U << 0,