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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2013-04-20 17:58:34 +0400
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2013-04-22 21:59:39 +0400
commit026249ef100b5384b6c74c360db46728e98354da (patch)
tree7584442e88944643f10975956afd5ab151908908 /include/linux/perf_event.h
parent12351ef8f9f2226636b00324d841d9c5069d80bc (diff)
downloadlinux-026249ef100b5384b6c74c360db46728e98354da.tar.xz
perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick
Provide a new helper that help full dynticks CPUs to prevent from stopping their tick in case there are events in the local rotation list. This way we make sure that perf_event_task_tick() is serviced on demand. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/perf_event.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index e47ee462c2f2..0140830225e2 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -799,6 +799,12 @@ static inline int __perf_event_disable(void *info) { return -1; }
static inline void perf_event_task_tick(void) { }
#endif
+#if defined(CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS) && defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL)
+extern bool perf_event_can_stop_tick(void);
+#else
+static inline bool perf_event_can_stop_tick(void) { return true; }
+#endif
+
#define perf_output_put(handle, x) perf_output_copy((handle), &(x), sizeof(x))
/*