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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:39:42 -0700
From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
To: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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        He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>, pi3orama@163.com,
        Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4 fix] perf core: Introduce new ioctl options to pause
 and resume ring buffer
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 02:05:07AM +0000, Wang Nan wrote:
> Add new ioctl() to pause/resume ring-buffer output.
> 
> In some situations we want to read from ring buffer only when we
> ensure nothing can write to the ring buffer during reading. Without
> this patch we have to turn off all events attached to this ring buffer
> to achieve this.
> 
> This patch is for supporting overwrite ring buffer. Following
> commits will introduce new methods support reading from overwrite ring
> buffer. Before reading, caller must ensure the ring buffer is frozen, or
> the reading is unreliable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
> Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
> Cc: pi3orama@163.com
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h |  1 +
>  kernel/events/core.c            | 13 +++++++++++++
>  kernel/events/internal.h        | 11 +++++++++++
>  kernel/events/ring_buffer.c     |  7 ++++++-
>  4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>