perf: Add PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID ioctl to return event ID
authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:37:58 +0000 (13:37 +0200)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 7 Aug 2013 20:35:19 +0000 (17:35 -0300)
commitcf4957f17f2a89984915ea808876d9c82225b862
treedadd1e82541aa9de5dd5e1ae9870ead4b36cb469
parent93786a5f6aeb9c032c1c240246c5aabcf457b38f
perf: Add PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID ioctl to return event ID

The only way to get the event ID is by reading the event fd,
followed by parsing the ID value out of the returned data.

While this is ok for current read format used by perf tool,
it is not ok when we use PERF_FORMAT_GROUP format.

With this format the data are returned for the whole group
and there's no way to find out what ID belongs to our fd
(if we are not group leader event).

Adding a simple ioctl that returns event primary ID for given fd.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-v1bn5cto707jn0bon34afqr1@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/events/core.c