Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Vince Weaver <> | Date | Thu, 23 Jul 2015 13:11:10 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | [patch 04/11] perf_event_open.2: 4.1 data_offset and data_size fields |
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This manpage patch relates to the addition of the data_offset and data_size fields to the perf_event mmap buffer, as added in the following commit:
commit e8c6deac69629c0cb97c3d3272f8631ef17f8f0f Author: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
perf: Add data_{offset,size} to user_page
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/1421237903-181015-2-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>
diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2 index 09eda9a..a3bebaa 100644 --- a/man2/perf_event_open.2 +++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2 @@ -1414,6 +1414,9 @@ struct perf_event_mmap_page { __u64 __reserved[120]; /* Pad to 1k */ __u64 data_head; /* head in the data section */ __u64 data_tail; /* user-space written tail */ + __u64 data_offset; /* where the buffer starts */ + __u64 data_size; /* data buffer size */ + } .fi .in @@ -1630,6 +1633,16 @@ the .I data_tail value should be written by user space to reflect the last read data. In this case, the kernel will not overwrite unread data. +.TP +.IR data_offset " (since Linux 4.1)" +.\" commit e8c6deac69629c0cb97c3d3272f8631ef17f8f0f +Contains the offset of the location in the mmap buffer +where perf sample data begins. +.TP +.IR data_size " (since Linux 4.1)" +.\" commit e8c6deac69629c0cb97c3d3272f8631ef17f8f0f +Contains the size of the perf sample region within +the mmap buffer. .PP The following 2^n ring-buffer pages have the layout described below.
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