perf/core: Add a new read format to get a number of lost samples
[ Upstream commit 119a784c ] Sometimes we want to know an accurate number of samples even if it's lost. Currenlty PERF_RECORD_LOST is generated for a ring-buffer which might be shared with other events. So it's hard to know per-event lost count. Add event->lost_samples field and PERF_FORMAT_LOST to retrieve it from userspace. Original-patch-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220616180623.1358843-1-namhyung@kernel.org Stable-dep-of: 382c27f4 ("perf: Fix perf_event_validate_size()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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