Merge branch 'tty-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh...

[pandora-kernel.git] / include / linux / perf_event.h

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 057bf22..40150f3 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -747,6 +747,16 @@ struct perf_event {
        u64                             tstamp_running;
        u64                             tstamp_stopped;
 
+       /*
+        * timestamp shadows the actual context timing but it can
+        * be safely used in NMI interrupt context. It reflects the
+        * context time as it was when the event was last scheduled in.
+        *
+        * ctx_time already accounts for ctx->timestamp. Therefore to
+        * compute ctx_time for a sample, simply add perf_clock().
+        */
+       u64                             shadow_ctx_time;
+
        struct perf_event_attr          attr;
        struct hw_perf_event            hw;