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Commit 4dc0da86 authored by Avi Kivity's avatar Avi Kivity Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf: Add context field to perf_event



The perf_event overflow handler does not receive any caller-derived
argument, so many callers need to resort to looking up the perf_event
in their local data structure.  This is ugly and doesn't scale if a
single callback services many perf_events.

Fix by adding a context parameter to perf_event_create_kernel_counter()
(and derived hardware breakpoints APIs) and storing it in the perf_event.
The field can be accessed from the callback as event->overflow_handler_context.
All callers are updated.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309362157-6596-2-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 89d6c0b5
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