Re: [PATCH V8 01/12] perf/core: Add aux_pause, aux_resume, aux_start_paused

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 09:51:00AM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:

> Add aux_paused to struct perf_event for AUX area events to keep track of
> the "paused" state. aux_paused is initialized to aux_start_paused.
	
> @@ -798,6 +810,9 @@ struct perf_event {
>  	/* for aux_output events */
>  	struct perf_event		*aux_event;
>  
> +	/* for AUX area events */
> +	unsigned int			aux_paused;
> +
>  	void (*destroy)(struct perf_event *);
>  	struct rcu_head			rcu_head;
>  

Should this not be part of struct hw_perf_event for whatever hw event
implements this AUX stuff?

In fact, I would expect PERF_HES_PAUSED or something to go in
perf_event::hw::state.