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Impact: Rework the perfcounter output ABI use sys_read() only for instant data and provide mmap() output for all async overflow data. The first mmap() determines the size of the output buffer. The mmap() size must be a PAGE_SIZE multiple of 1+pages, where pages must be a power of 2 or 0. Further mmap()s of the same fd must have the same size. Once all maps are gone, you can again mmap() with a new size. In case of 0 extra pages there is no data output and the first page only contains meta data. When there are data pages, a poll() event will be generated for each full page of data. Furthermore, the output is circular. This means that although 1 page is a valid configuration, its useless, since we'll start overwriting it the instant we report a full page. Future work will focus on the output format (currently maintained) where we'll likey want each entry denoted by a header which includes a type and length. Further future work will allow to splice() the fd, also containing the async overflow data -- splice() would be mutually exclusive with mmap() of the data. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090323172417.470536358@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
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