tree 81b964ead346a8a6319b40546e9d80e45367fdb3
parent 6856b8e53609ee3eff7e3173e4e5d979f47d834d
author Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> 1507220359 -0700
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 1509093116 +0200

perf/bpf: Extend the perf_event_read_local() interface, a.k.a. "bpf: perf event change needed for subsequent bpf helpers"

eBPF programs would like access to the (perf) event enabled and
running times along with the event value, such that they can deal with
event multiplexing (among other things).

This patch extends the interface; a future eBPF patch will utilize
the new functionality.

[ Note, there's a same-content commit with a poor changelog and a meaningless
  title in the networking tree as well - but we need this change for subsequent
  perf work, so apply it here as well, with a proper changelog. Hopefully Git
  will be able to sort out this somewhat messy workflow, if there are no other,
  conflicting changes to these files. ]

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
[ Rewrote the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <ast@fb.com>
Cc: <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171005161923.332790-2-yhs@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>