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perf: Add perf_event::child_count

Only child counters adding back their values into the parent counter
are responsible for cross-cpu updates to event->count.

So if we pull that out into a new child_count variable, we get an
event->count that is only modified locally.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra 15 years ago
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2 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 1 0
      include/linux/perf_event.h
  2. 2 2
      kernel/perf_event.c

+ 1 - 0
include/linux/perf_event.h

@@ -671,6 +671,7 @@ struct perf_event {
 	enum perf_event_active_state	state;
 	unsigned int			attach_state;
 	atomic64_t			count;
+	atomic64_t			child_count;
 
 	/*
 	 * These are the total time in nanoseconds that the event

+ 2 - 2
kernel/perf_event.c

@@ -1738,7 +1738,7 @@ static void __perf_event_read(void *info)
 
 static inline u64 perf_event_count(struct perf_event *event)
 {
-	return atomic64_read(&event->count);
+	return atomic64_read(&event->count) + atomic64_read(&event->child_count);
 }
 
 static u64 perf_event_read(struct perf_event *event)
@@ -5379,7 +5379,7 @@ static void sync_child_event(struct perf_event *child_event,
 	/*
 	 * Add back the child's count to the parent's count:
 	 */
-	atomic64_add(child_val, &parent_event->count);
+	atomic64_add(child_val, &parent_event->child_count);
 	atomic64_add(child_event->total_time_enabled,
 		     &parent_event->child_total_time_enabled);
 	atomic64_add(child_event->total_time_running,