From c5078f78b455fbf67ea71442c7e7ca8acf9ff095 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 17:50:24 +0200
Subject: perf_counter: provide an mlock threshold

Provide a threshold to relax the mlock accounting, increasing usability.

Each counter gets perf_counter_mlock_kb for free.

[ Impact: allow more mmap buffering ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090505155437.112113632@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 kernel/sysctl.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 8203d70..3b05c2b 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -920,6 +920,14 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec,
 	},
+	{
+		.ctl_name	= CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+		.procname	= "perf_counter_mlock_kb",
+		.data		= &sysctl_perf_counter_mlock,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(sysctl_perf_counter_mlock),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec,
+	},
 #endif
 /*
  * NOTE: do not add new entries to this table unless you have read
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