From a08b159fc243dbfe415250466d24cfc5010deee5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Mackerras Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:46:10 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] perf_counter: don't count scheduler ticks as context switches The context-switch software counter gives inflated values at present because each scheduler tick and each process-wide counter enable/disable prctl gets counted as a context switch. This happens because perf_counter_task_tick, perf_counter_task_disable and perf_counter_task_enable all call perf_counter_task_sched_out, which calls perf_swcounter_event to record a context switch event. This fixes it by introducing a variant of perf_counter_task_sched_out with two underscores in front for internal use within the perf_counter code, and makes perf_counter_task_{tick,disable,enable} call it. This variant doesn't record a context switch event, and takes a struct perf_counter_context *. This adds the new variant rather than changing the behaviour or interface of perf_counter_task_sched_out because that is called from other code. [ Impact: fix inflated context-switch event counts ] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Corey Ashford LKML-Reference: <18951.48034.485580.498953@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed