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perf_event_open.2: 4.1 adds aux_watermark
authorVince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:14:35 +0000 (13:14 -0400)
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Wed, 14 Oct 2015 06:45:24 +0000 (08:45 +0200)
This manpage patch relates to the addition of the aux_watermark attr
field in the following commit:

commit 1a5941312414c71dece6717da9a0fa1303127afa
Author: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>

perf: Add wakeup watermark control to the AUX area

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@infradead.org
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-10-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
man2/perf_event_open.2

index 6b9d1dc486c7de0ba3c5e70ebfe1de5373ad17aa..dae9b23fc70fd1e2e7829b404c65c27744c364fc 100644 (file)
@@ -259,6 +259,9 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
                                    samples */
     __s32 clockid;              /* clock to use for time fields */
     __u64 sample_regs_intr;     /* regs to dump on samples */
+    __u32 aux_watermark;        /* aux bytes before wakeup */
+    __u32 __reserved_2;         /* align to u64 */
+
 };
 .fi
 .in
@@ -357,6 +360,11 @@ is 104 corresponding to the addition of
 .I sample_regs_intr
 in Linux 3.19.
 .\" commit 60e2364e60e86e81bc6377f49779779e6120977f
+.B PERF_ATTR_SIZE_VER5
+is 112 corresponding to the addition of
+.I aux_watermak
+in Linux 4.1.
+.\" commit 1a5941312414c71dece6717da9a0fa1303127afa
 .TP
 .I "config"
 This specifies which event you want, in conjunction with
@@ -1284,6 +1292,12 @@ with
 .BR CLOCK_MONOTONIC , CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW , CLOCK_REALTIME ,
 .BR CLOCK_BOOTTIME ", and " CLOCK_TAI
 currently supported.
+.TP
+.IR "aux_watermark" " (since Linux 4.1)"
+.\" commit 1a5941312414c71dece6717da9a0fa1303127afa
+This specifies how much data is required to trigger a
+.B PERF_RECORD_AUX
+sample.
 .SS Reading results
 Once a
 .BR perf_event_open ()