[PATCH RFC 1/3] perf/core: Add aux_pause, aux_resume, aux_start_paused

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 02:18:49PM +0200, Adrian Hunter wrote:

> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> index 39c6a250dd1b..1232e70adfba 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> @@ -456,7 +456,8 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
>  				inherit_thread :  1, /* children only inherit if cloned with CLONE_THREAD */
>  				remove_on_exec :  1, /* event is removed from task on exec */
>  				sigtrap        :  1, /* send synchronous SIGTRAP on event */
> -				__reserved_1   : 26;
> +				aux_start_paused :  1, /* start AUX area tracing paused */
> +				__reserved_1   : 25;
>  
>  	union {
>  		__u32		wakeup_events;	  /* wakeup every n events */
> @@ -507,7 +508,15 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
>  	__u16	sample_max_stack;
>  	__u16	__reserved_2;
>  	__u32	aux_sample_size;
> -	__u32	__reserved_3;
> +
> +	union {
> +		__u32	aux_output_cfg;
> +		struct {
> +			__u64	aux_pause      :  1, /* on overflow, pause AUX area tracing */
> +				aux_resume     :  1, /* on overflow, resume AUX area tracing */
> +				__reserved_3   : 30;
> +		};
> +	};
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * User provided data if sigtrap=1, passed back to user via

So since you're adding a aux_output_cfg word, could you not also put the
start_paused thing in there?