Re: [patch 08/11] perf_event_open.2: 4.1 add aux_watermark

From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Date: Wed Oct 14 2015 - 02:35:03 EST


On 07/23/2015 07:14 PM, Vince Weaver wrote:
>
>
> This manpage patch relates to the addition of the aux_watermark attr
> field in the following commit:

Thanks, Vince. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael


> commit 1a5941312414c71dece6717da9a0fa1303127afa
> Author: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> perf: Add wakeup watermark control to the AUX area
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: markus.t.metzger@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-10-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2
> index 238eb62..19c5c23 100644
> --- a/man2/perf_event_open.2
> +++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2
> @@ -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 ()
>


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