From: Jiri Olsa Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:48:26 +0000 (-0400) Subject: perf: Add PERF_EVENT_STATE_EXIT state for events with exited task X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.19/prcm-cleanup~97^2~27^2~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=179033b3e064d2cd3f5f9945e76b0a0f0fbf4883;p=pandora-kernel.git perf: Add PERF_EVENT_STATE_EXIT state for events with exited task Adding new perf event state to indicate that the monitored task has exited. In this case the event stays alive until the owner task exits or close the event fd while providing the last data through the read syscall and ring buffer. Instead it needs to propagate the error info (monitored task has died) via poll and read syscalls by returning POLLHUP and 0 respectively. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140811120102.GY9918@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: David Ahern Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jean Pihet Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-t5y3w8jjx6tfo5w8y6oajsjq@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- Reading git-diff-tree failed