21 Jan, 2019

1 commit

  • Update design.txt to reflect the presence of the exclude_host
    and exclude_guest perf flags.

    Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray
    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Borislav Petkov
    Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
    Cc: Linus Torvalds
    Cc: Mark Rutland
    Cc: Matt Turner
    Cc: Michael Ellerman
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Richard Henderson
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: Sascha Hauer
    Cc: Shawn Guo
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Will Deacon
    Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
    Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
    Cc: robin.murphy@arm.com
    Cc: suzuki.poulose@arm.com
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547128414-50693-2-git-send-email-andrew.murray@arm.com
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Andrew Murray
     

19 Mar, 2014

1 commit

  • Update the names of some functions and enums in design.txt. The document
    still has some stale information, but the motivation behind this patch
    is to allow a developer to quickly grep and learn about the associated
    structures.

    Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra
    Cc: David Ahern
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395169804-1293-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

    Ramkumar Ramachandra
     

26 Jan, 2014

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28 Dec, 2009

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  • perf_event_hw_event has been renamed to perf_event_attr. The
    design document was still using the old name, though.

    Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Mike Galbraith
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Tim Blechmann
     

28 Oct, 2009

1 commit


06 Oct, 2009

1 commit

  • Some architectures such as Sparc, ARM and MIPS (basically
    everything with flush_dcache_page()) need to deal with dcache
    aliases by carefully placing pages in both kernel and user maps.

    These architectures typically have to use vmalloc_user() for this.

    However, on other architectures, vmalloc() is not needed and has
    the downsides of being more restricted and slower than regular
    allocations.

    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Acked-by: David Miller
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Cc: Jens Axboe
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Peter Zijlstra
     

21 Sep, 2009

1 commit

  • Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

    In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
    initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
    becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
    monitoring, analysis facility.

    Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
    'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
    code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
    less appropriate.

    All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
    events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
    and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

    The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
    it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

    Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
    suggested a rename.

    User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
    should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
    keep the size down.)

    This patch has been generated via the following script:

    FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

    sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

    for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
    done

    FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

    sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

    ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
    used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
    a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
    change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
    is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

    Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
    stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

    ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
    with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
    over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
    in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
    better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
    instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )

    Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian
    Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Acked-by: Paul Mackerras
    Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven
    Cc: Mike Galbraith
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
    Cc: Steven Rostedt
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: Kyle McMartin
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
    Cc:
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Ingo Molnar
     

13 Jun, 2009

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07 Jun, 2009

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