[PATCH v2 04/20] perf/hw_breakpoint: perf/core: advertise PMU exclusion capability
Andrew Murray
andrew.murray at arm.com
Mon Nov 26 22:12:20 AEDT 2018
The breakpoint PMU has the capability to exclude kernel contexts,
let's advertise that we support the PERF_PMU_CAP_EXCLUDE
capability so that perf doesn't prevent us from handling events
with any exclusion flags set.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray at arm.com>
---
kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
index d6b5618..fefe3d5 100644
--- a/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -669,6 +669,8 @@ static struct pmu perf_breakpoint = {
.start = hw_breakpoint_start,
.stop = hw_breakpoint_stop,
.read = hw_breakpoint_pmu_read,
+
+ .capabilities = PERF_PMU_CAP_EXCLUDE,
};
int __init init_hw_breakpoint(void)
--
2.7.4
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