[PATCH v2 0/2] perf: User/kernel time correlation and event generation

[Pawel Moll]

Greetings,

Another week, another series. Previous versions:

- RFC: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1824419.html
- v1: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1790231

The first patch adds an additional timestamp field in the perf
sample data, which can be requested for any perf event along
with normal PERF_SAMPLE_TIME. Events with both values appearing
periodically in the perf data allow user code to translate
raw monotonic time (obtained via POSIX clock API) to sched_clock
domain. Although any perf event can be used, the natural choice
would be a sched_switch trace event (for processes with root
permissions) or a hrtimer-based PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK.

It didn't attract any comments previously, so is just re-posted
without any changes.

The second patch, functionally orthogonal but complementing
the first one, builds on the ftrace "trace_maker" idea. It adds
a write syscall handler for the perf file descriptor, that can
be used to inject a userspace-generated data into the perf buffer.
It provides base for printf-like functionality in perf world.
If used with the previous patch, it can be also used to provide
synchronisation points for sched vs. raw monotonic time stamps
correlation.

The "uevent", besides the size and data from the write syscall,
contains a 32 bit integer value which can be used to distinguish
different types of the events. The type of following events can
be set with an additional ioctl.

Type value "0" is defined as a zero-terminated string (which
makes it trivial to generate with dprintf() library function),
but meaning of data for other types is of no interest for the
kernel. The intention is to host a list of "well known" types
(with reference parsers for them) in the user perf tool code.

Pawel Moll (2):
  perf: Add sampling of the raw monotonic clock
  perf: Userspace event

 include/linux/perf_event.h      | 16 +++++++
 include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 26 +++++++++++-
 kernel/events/core.c            | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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