Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] perf, persistent: Kernel updates for perf toolintegration

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Jun 25 2013 - 15:17:03 EST


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 07:57:29PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> But what options there are to detach the event from all processes and
> make it persistent?

Something like this:

ioctl(fd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_DETACH, 0);

I guess this could simply set the persistent flag so that the rest of
the perf code knows not to destroy event buffers etc.

I don't have an idea about the reattaching though because you don't have
a file descriptor there.

Maybe for that we could really use the sys_perf_event_open() with flags
set to PERF_FLAG_PERSISTENT to note that we want to reattach to the
persistent event instead of opening a new one.

Something to that effect...

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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