From 453f19eea7dbad837425e9b07d84568d14898794 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:19:43 +0100 Subject: perf: Allow for custom overflow handlers in-kernel perf users might wish to have custom actions on the sample interrupt. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras LKML-Reference: <20091120212508.222339539@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/perf_event.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c index 3852e2656bb0..1dfb6cc4fdea 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -3710,7 +3710,11 @@ static int __perf_event_overflow(struct perf_event *event, int nmi, perf_event_disable(event); } - perf_event_output(event, nmi, data, regs); + if (event->overflow_handler) + event->overflow_handler(event, nmi, data, regs); + else + perf_event_output(event, nmi, data, regs); + return ret; } @@ -4836,6 +4840,8 @@ inherit_event(struct perf_event *parent_event, if (parent_event->attr.freq) child_event->hw.sample_period = parent_event->hw.sample_period; + child_event->overflow_handler = parent_event->overflow_handler; + /* * Link it up in the child's context: */ -- cgit v1.2.3