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SubjectQuestion about resetting a sampling counter in kernel
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Hello,

I have a question about controlling performance counter in kernel.

I created a kernel counter which generates an interrupt at every
10000 cache-misses as shown below.

struct perf_event_attr sched_perf_hw_attr = {
     .type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE,
     .config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES,
    .sample_period = 10000,
  .size = sizeof(struct perf_event_attr),
  .pinned = 1,
  .disbled = 1,
}

event = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(&sched_perf_hw_attr, cpu,
       NULL, event_overflow_callback, NULL);

What I would like to do is to "reset" the counter before the
overflow interrupt occurs (e.g, reset at 5000th event),
and then to restart the sampling from 0.

I found perf_event_enable() and perf_event_disable() only
start/stop the counting but couln't figure out how to reset the
sampling as I described above.

I would be really thankful if you explain how I can efficiently reset the
sampling counter.

Thanks.
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