perf events: Separate the routines handling the PERF_SAMPLE_ identity fields

Those will be made available in sample like events like MMAP, EXEC, etc in a
followup patch. So precalculate the extra id header space and have a separate
routine to fill them up.

V2: Thomas noticed that the id header needs to be precalculated at
inherit_events too:

LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1012031245220.2653@localhost6.localdomain6>

Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <1291318772-30880-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 2010-12-03 16:36:35 -02:00
parent 614b6780eb
commit 6844c09d84
2 changed files with 76 additions and 54 deletions

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@ -759,6 +759,7 @@ struct perf_event {
struct perf_event_attr attr;
u16 header_size;
u16 id_header_size;
u16 read_size;
struct hw_perf_event hw;