perf: Add perf_output_skip function to skip bytes in sample

Introducing perf_output_skip function to be able to skip data within the
perf ring buffer.

When writing data into perf ring buffer we first reserve needed place in
ring buffer and then copy the actual data.

There's a possibility we won't be able to fill all the reserved size
with data, so we need a way to skip the remaining bytes.

This is going to be useful when storing the user stack dump, where we
might end up with less data than we originally requested.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index d41394a1af36e51a71f32afb805fcd625fa24c72..8a73f75beb16ce68c31092966f556b57ebdd6bac 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -1321,6 +1321,8 @@ extern int perf_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
 extern void perf_output_end(struct perf_output_handle *handle);
 extern unsigned int perf_output_copy(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
                             const void *buf, unsigned int len);
+extern unsigned int perf_output_skip(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
+                                    unsigned int len);
 extern int perf_swevent_get_recursion_context(void);
 extern void perf_swevent_put_recursion_context(int rctx);
 extern void perf_event_enable(struct perf_event *event);

diff --git a/kernel/events/internal.h b/kernel/events/internal.h
index 7fd5408493d2697d346d030f44ec658062160280..ce7bdfc1d045fd6794677977ff225f28c9506350 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/events/internal.h
+++ b/kernel/events/internal.h
@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ static inline int memcpy_common(void *dst, const void *src, size_t n)
 
 DEFINE_OUTPUT_COPY(__output_copy, memcpy_common)
 
+#define MEMCPY_SKIP(dst, src, n) (n)
+
+DEFINE_OUTPUT_COPY(__output_skip, MEMCPY_SKIP)
+
 #ifndef arch_perf_out_copy_user
 #define arch_perf_out_copy_user __copy_from_user_inatomic
 #endif

diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index b4c2ad3dee7a90d787f505e57d11d075e22e778a..23cb34ff3973c2dc7e4ce9cf41f744f93a36f83a 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -188,6 +188,12 @@ unsigned int perf_output_copy(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
        return __output_copy(handle, buf, len);
 }
 
+unsigned int perf_output_skip(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
+                             unsigned int len)
+{
+       return __output_skip(handle, NULL, len);
+}
+
 void perf_output_end(struct perf_output_handle *handle)
 {
        perf_output_put_handle(handle);