perf: Fix wakeup storm for RO mmap()s
RO mmap()s don't update the tail pointer, so
comparing against it for determining the written data
size doesn't really do any good.
Keep track of when we last did a wakeup, and compare
against that.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.684479310@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 7cd7b35..7098ebb 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@
local_t head; /* write position */
local_t nest; /* nested writers */
local_t events; /* event limit */
- local_t wakeup; /* needs a wakeup */
+ local_t wakeup; /* wakeup stamp */
local_t lost; /* nr records lost */
long watermark; /* wakeup watermark */