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perf: New helper function for pmu name
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Introduce perf_pmu_name() helper function that returns the name of the
pmu. This gives us a generic way to get the name of a pmu regardless of
how an architecture identifies it internally.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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Matt Fleming authored and Robert Richter committed Oct 11, 2010
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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions arch/sh/kernel/perf_event.c
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Expand Up @@ -59,6 +59,15 @@ static inline int sh_pmu_initialized(void)
return !!sh_pmu;
}

const char *perf_pmu_name(void)
{
if (!sh_pmu)
return NULL;

return sh_pmu->name;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_pmu_name);

int perf_num_counters(void)
{
if (!sh_pmu)
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/linux/perf_event.h
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Expand Up @@ -850,6 +850,7 @@ extern int perf_max_events;
extern const struct pmu *hw_perf_event_init(struct perf_event *event);

extern int perf_num_counters(void);
extern const char *perf_pmu_name(void);
extern void perf_event_task_sched_in(struct task_struct *task);
extern void perf_event_task_sched_out(struct task_struct *task, struct task_struct *next);
extern void perf_event_task_tick(struct task_struct *task);
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions kernel/perf_event.c
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Expand Up @@ -85,6 +85,11 @@ void __weak hw_perf_enable(void) { barrier(); }

void __weak perf_event_print_debug(void) { }

extern __weak const char *perf_pmu_name(void)
{
return "pmu";
}

static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, perf_disable_count);

void perf_disable(void)
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