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Commit e6dab5ff authored by Andrew Vagin's avatar Andrew Vagin Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events



A few events are interesting not only for a current task.
For example, sched_stat_* events are interesting for a task
which wakes up. For this reason, it will be good if such
events will be delivered to a target task too.

Now a target task can be set by using __perf_task().

The original idea and a draft patch belongs to Peter Zijlstra.

I need these events for profiling sleep times. sched_switch is used for
getting callchains and sched_stat_* is used for getting time periods.
These events are combined in user space, then it can be analyzed by
perf tools.

Inspired-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342016098-213063-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent d07bdfd3
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