From: Frederic Weisbecker on
Hi,

The new task and irq exclusion handling can let you
confine tracing and profiling to about everything you
want.

May be the only class of event I haven't tested yet is the
breakpoints and non-tracepoint software events.
Otherwise it works fine for hardware and tracepoints.

Thanks.

(Can be pulled there if you think it's fine:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git
perf/exclusion)

Frederic Weisbecker (4):
irq: Support to compute context on top of a given preempt_count
offset
perf: Add exclude_task perf event attribute
perf: Support for irq exclusion
perf: Support for task/softirq/hardirq exclusion on tools

include/linux/hardirq.h | 17 +++++++--
include/linux/perf_event.h | 7 +++-
kernel/perf_event.c | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 37 +++++++++++++------
4 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

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