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Borislav Petkov 7b5e74e637 x86/cpufeature: Remove cpu_has_arch_perfmon
Use boot_cpu_has() instead.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: oprofile-list@lists.sf.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1459266123-21878-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-31 13:33:17 +02:00
Robert Richter 298557db42 oprofile, x86: Fix overflow and warning (commit 1d12d35)
Following fixes for:

 1d12d35 oprofile, x86: Convert memory allocation to static array

Fix potential buffer overflow.

Fix the following warning:

 arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_ppro.c: In function ‘ppro_check_ctrs’:
 arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_ppro.c:143: warning: label ‘out’ defined but not used

Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2011-08-16 23:51:00 +02:00
Maarten Lankhorst 1d12d35284 oprofile, x86: Convert memory allocation to static array
On -rt, allocators don't work from atomic context any more,
and the maximum size of the array is known at compile time.

Call trace on a -rt kernel:

oprofile: using NMI interrupt.
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/rtmutex.c:645
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 0, name: kworker/0:1
Pid: 0, comm: kworker/0:1 Tainted: G         C  3.0.0-rt3-patser+ #39
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>  [<ffffffff8103fc0a>] __might_sleep+0xca/0xf0
 [<ffffffff8160d424>] rt_spin_lock+0x24/0x40
 [<ffffffff811476c7>] __kmalloc+0xc7/0x370
 [<ffffffffa0275c85>] ? ppro_setup_ctrs+0x215/0x260 [oprofile]
 [<ffffffffa0273de0>] ? oprofile_cpu_notifier+0x60/0x60 [oprofile]
 [<ffffffffa0275c85>] ppro_setup_ctrs+0x215/0x260 [oprofile]
 [<ffffffffa0273de0>] ? oprofile_cpu_notifier+0x60/0x60 [oprofile]
 [<ffffffffa0273de0>] ? oprofile_cpu_notifier+0x60/0x60 [oprofile]
 [<ffffffffa0273ea4>] nmi_cpu_setup+0xc4/0x110 [oprofile]
 [<ffffffff81094455>] generic_smp_call_function_interrupt+0x95/0x190
 [<ffffffff8101df77>] smp_call_function_interrupt+0x27/0x40
 [<ffffffff81615093>] call_function_interrupt+0x13/0x20
 <EOI>  [<ffffffff8131d0c4>] ? plist_check_head+0x54/0xc0
 [<ffffffff81371fe8>] ? intel_idle+0xc8/0x120
 [<ffffffff81371fc7>] ? intel_idle+0xa7/0x120
 [<ffffffff814a57b0>] cpuidle_idle_call+0xb0/0x230
 [<ffffffff810011db>] cpu_idle+0x8b/0xe0
 [<ffffffff815fc82f>] start_secondary+0x1d3/0x1d8

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2011-08-01 22:54:19 +02:00
Tejun Heo 7b543a5334 x86: Replace uses of current_cpu_data with this_cpu ops
Replace all uses of current_cpu_data with this_cpu operations on the
per cpu structure cpu_info.  The scala accesses are replaced with the
matching this_cpu ops which results in smaller and more efficient
code.

In the long run, it might be a good idea to remove cpu_data() macro
too and use per_cpu macro directly.

tj: updated description

Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-12-30 12:22:03 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 4d7b4ac22f Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (311 commits)
  perf tools: Add mode to build without newt support
  perf symbols: symbol inconsistency message should be done only at verbose=1
  perf tui: Add explicit -lslang option
  perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants
  perf options: Type check OPT_BOOLEAN and fix the offenders
  perf options: Check v type in OPT_U?INTEGER
  perf options: Introduce OPT_UINTEGER
  perf tui: Add workaround for slang < 2.1.4
  perf record: Fix bug mismatch with -c option definition
  perf options: Introduce OPT_U64
  perf tui: Add help window to show key associations
  perf tui: Make <- exit menus too
  perf newt: Add single key shortcuts for zoom into DSO and threads
  perf newt: Exit browser unconditionally when CTRL+C, q or Q is pressed
  perf newt: Fix the 'A'/'a' shortcut for annotate
  perf newt: Make <- exit the ui_browser
  x86, perf: P4 PMU - fix counters management logic
  perf newt: Make <- zoom out filters
  perf report: Report number of events, not samples
  perf hist: Clarify events_stats fields usage
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in kernel/fork.c and tools/perf/builtin-record.c
2010-05-18 08:19:03 -07:00
Robert Richter 8617f98c00 oprofile/x86: return -EBUSY if counters are already reserved
In case a counter is already reserved by the watchdog or perf_event
subsystem, oprofile ignored this counters silently. This case is
handled now and oprofile_setup() now reports an error.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2010-05-04 11:35:28 +02:00
Robert Richter 83300ce0df oprofile/x86: moving shutdown functions
Moving some code in preparation of the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2010-05-04 11:35:27 +02:00
Robert Richter d0e4120fda oprofile/x86: reserve counter msrs pairwise
For AMD's and Intel's P6 generic performance counters have pairwise
counter and control msrs. This patch changes the counter reservation
in a way that both msrs must be registered. It joins some counter
loops and also removes the unnecessary NUM_CONTROLS macro in the AMD
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2010-05-04 11:35:26 +02:00
Robert Richter 948b1bb89a perf, x86: Undo some some *_counter* -> *_event* renames
The big rename:

 cdd6c48 perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events

accidentally renamed some members of stucts that were named after
registers in the spec. To avoid confusion this patch reverts some
changes. The related specs are MSR descriptions in AMD's BKDGs and the
ARCHITECTURAL PERFORMANCE MONITORING section in the Intel 64 and IA-32
Architectures Software Developer's Manuals.

This patch does:

 $ sed -i -e 's:num_events:num_counters:g' \
   arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h \
   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd.c \
   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c \
   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c \
   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p6.c \
   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c \
   arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_ppro.c

 $ sed -i -e 's:event_bits:cntval_bits:g' -e 's:event_mask:cntval_mask:g' \
   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd.c \
   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c \
   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c \
   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p6.c \
   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1269880612-25800-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-02 19:52:02 +02:00
Robert Richter bb1165d688 perf, x86: rename macro in ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_ENABLE
For consistency reasons this patch renames
ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL0_ENABLE to ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_ENABLE.

The following is performed:

 $ sed -i -e s/ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL0_ENABLE/ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_ENABLE/g \
   arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c \
   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p6.c \
   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c \
   arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_ppro.c

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2010-03-01 14:21:23 +01:00
Robert Richter c17c8fbf34 oprofile/x86: use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc()
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2010-02-26 15:20:03 +01:00
Robert Richter 98a2e73a06 oprofile/x86: warn user if a counter is already active
This patch generates a warning if a counter is already active.

Implemented for AMD and P6 models. P4 is not supported.

Cc: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Cc: Shashi Belur <shashi-kiran.belur@hp.com>
Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2010-02-26 15:14:03 +01:00
Ingo Molnar cdd6c482c9 perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
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\>/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 <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
Robert Richter 52471c67ee x86/oprofile: Modify initialization of num_virt_counters
Models that do not yet support counter multiplexing have to setup
num_virt_counters. This patch implements the setup from num_counters
if num_virt_counters is not set. Thus, num_virt_counters must be setup
only for multiplexing support.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-07-20 16:43:21 +02:00
Robert Richter 2904a52757 x86/oprofile: Remove unused num_virt_controls from struct op_x86_model_spec
The member num_virt_controls of struct op_x86_model_spec is not
used. This patch removes it.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-07-20 16:43:20 +02:00
Robert Richter 259a83a8ab x86/oprofile: Remove const qualifier from struct op_x86_model_spec
This patch removes the const qualifier from struct
op_x86_model_spec to make model parameters changable.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-07-20 16:43:20 +02:00
Jason Yeh 4d4036e0e7 oprofile: Implement performance counter multiplexing
The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing feature
enables OProfile to gather more events than counters are provided by
the hardware. This is realized by switching between events at an user
specified time interval.

A new file (/dev/oprofile/time_slice) is added for the user to specify
the timer interval in ms. If the number of events to profile is higher
than the number of hardware counters available, the patch will
schedule a work queue that switches the event counter and re-writes
the different sets of values into it. The switching mechanism needs to
be implemented for each architecture to support multiplexing. This
patch only implements AMD CPU support, but multiplexing can be easily
extended for other models and architectures.

There are follow-on patches that rework parts of this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jason Yeh <jason.yeh@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-07-20 16:33:53 +02:00
Robert Richter 6e63ea4b0b x86/oprofile: Whitespaces changes only
This patch fixes whitespace changes of code that will be touched in
follow-on patches.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-07-14 16:44:51 +02:00
Robert Richter 1241eb8f13 Merge commit 'tip/perfcounters-for-linus' into oprofile/master
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_ppro.c

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-12 17:58:48 +02:00
Robert Richter 217d3cfb95 x86/oprofile: replace CTR*_IS_RESERVED macros
The patch replaces all CTR*_IS_RESERVED macros.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 19:42:16 +02:00
Robert Richter dea3766ca0 x86/oprofile: replace CTRL_SET_*ACTIVE macros
The patch replaces all CTRL_SET_*ACTIVE macros. 64 bit MSR functions
and 64 bit counter values are used now. The code uses bit masks from
<asm/intel_arch_perfmon.h>.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 19:42:15 +02:00
Robert Richter 42399adb23 x86/oprofile: replace CTR_OVERFLOWED macros
The patch replaces all CTR_OVERFLOWED macros. 64 bit MSR functions and
64 bit counter values are used now. Thus, it will be easier to later
extend the models to use more than 32 bit width counters.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 19:42:15 +02:00
Robert Richter 3370d35856 x86/oprofile: replace macros to calculate control register
This patch introduces op_x86_get_ctrl() to calculate the value of the
performance control register. This is generic code usable for all
models. The event and reserved masks are model specific and stored in
struct op_x86_model_spec. 64 bit MSR functions are used now. The patch
removes many hard to read macros used for ctrl calculation.

The function op_x86_get_ctrl() is common code and the first step to
further merge performance counter implementations for x86 models.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 19:42:14 +02:00
Robert Richter ef8828ddf8 x86/oprofile: pass the model to setup_ctrs() functions
In follow-on patches the setup_ctrs() functions will need data that
describes the model. This patch extends the function argument list to
pass a pointer of the model to these function.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 19:42:14 +02:00
Robert Richter ec064c093e x86/oprofile: fix and cleanup CTRL_SET_* macros
This patch fixes missing braces around macro parameters. Macro
definitions from intel_arch_perfmon.h are used where possible.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 19:42:13 +02:00
Robert Richter 74c9a5c341 x86/oprofile: remove MSR macros for ppro cpus
The macros CTRL_READ() and CTRL_WRITE() make the code hard to read and
maintain. This patch replaces them by rdmsr()/wrmsr() functions and
simplifies the code.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 19:42:11 +02:00
Robert Richter ff9faa8b67 x86/oprofile: move common macros to op_x86_model.h
There are duplicate macro implementations in model specific code. This
patch moves all common macros to op_x86_model.h.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11 19:42:10 +02:00
Robert Richter e419294ed3 x86/oprofile: moving arch_perfmon counter setup to op_x86_model_spec.init
The function arch_perfmon_init() in nmi_int.c is model specific. This
patch moves it to op_model_ppro.c by using the init function pointer
in struct op_x86_model_spec.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-10 22:09:24 +02:00
Robert Richter 849620fab4 Revert "oprofile: discover counters for op ppro too"
This reverts commit 59512900ba.

arch_perfmon_setup_counters() is actually never called for ppro, so
there is no code that changes the numbers in op_ppro_spec. The patch
as it is has no effect.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-10 22:07:35 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 8163d88c79 Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc7' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c
2009-03-04 11:42:31 +01:00
Tim Blechmann 780eef9492 x86: oprofile: don't set counter width from cpuid on Core2
Impact: fix stuck NMIs and non-working oprofile on certain CPUs

Resetting the counter width of the performance counters on Intel's
Core2 CPUs, breaks the delivery of NMIs, when running in x86_64 mode.

This should fix bug #12395:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12395

Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090303100412.GC10085@erda.amd.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-03 12:04:22 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 82aa9a1829 perfcounters: fix "perf counters kills oprofile" bug, v2
Impact: fix kernel crash

Both oprofile and perfcounters register an NMI die handler, but only one
can handle the NMI.  Conveniently, oprofile unregisters it's notifier
when not actively in use, so setting it's notifier priority higher than
perfcounter's allows oprofile to borrow the NMI for the duration of it's
run.  Tested/works both as module and built-in.

While testing, I found that if kerneltop was generating NMIs at very
high frequency, the kernel may panic when oprofile registered it's
handler.  This turned out to be because oprofile registers it's handler
before reset_value has been allocated, so if an NMI comes in while it's
still setting up, kabOom.  Rather than try more invasive changes, I
followed the lead of other places in op_model_ppro.c, and simply
returned in that highly unlikely event.  (debug warnings attached)

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-05 15:24:14 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 5c167b8585 x86, perfcounters: rename intel_arch_perfmon.h => perf_counter.h
Impact: rename include file

We'll be providing an asm/perf_counter.h to the generic perfcounter code,
so use the already existing x86 file for this purpose and rename it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-23 12:45:09 +01:00
Eric Dumazet 9ea84ad77d oprofile: fix CPU unplug panic in ppro_stop()
If oprofile statically compiled in kernel, a cpu unplug triggers
a panic in ppro_stop(), because a NULL pointer is dereferenced.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-12-03 15:58:51 +01:00
Eric Dumazet a4a16beade oprofile: fix an overflow in ppro code
reset_value was changed from long to u64 in commit
b991702884 (oprofile: Implement Intel
architectural perfmon support)

But dynamic allocation of this array use a wrong type (long instead of
u64)

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-11-17 18:47:36 +01:00
Andi Kleen 7c64ade53a oprofile: Fix p6 counter overflow check
Fix the counter overflow check for CPUs with counter width > 32

I had a similar change in a different patch that I didn't submit
and I didn't notice the problem earlier because it was always
tested together.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-11-07 17:34:41 +01:00
Robert Richter 5a289395bf Merge branch 'oprofile/x86-oprofile-for-tip' into oprofile/oprofile-for-tip
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_ppro.c
2008-10-15 22:19:41 +02:00
Robert Richter c92960fccb oprofile: whitespace fixes
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-10-15 20:47:41 +02:00
Andi Kleen 59512900ba oprofile: discover counters for op ppro too
Discover number of counters for all family 6 models even when not
in arch perfmon mode.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-10-13 19:25:11 +02:00
Andi Kleen b991702884 oprofile: Implement Intel architectural perfmon support
Newer Intel CPUs (Core1+) have support for architectural
events described in CPUID 0xA. See the IA32 SDM Vol3b.18 for details.

The advantage of this is that it can be done without knowing about
the specific CPU, because the CPU describes by itself what
performance events are supported. This is only a fallback
because only a limited set of 6 events are supported.
This allows to do profiling on Nehalem and on Atom systems
(later not tested)

This patch implements support for that in oprofile's Intel
Family 6 profiling module. It also has the advantage of supporting
an arbitary number of events now as reported by the CPU.
Also allow arbitary counter widths >32bit while we're at it.

Requires a patched oprofile userland to support the new
architecture.

v2: update for latest oprofile tree
    remove force_arch_perfmon

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-10-13 19:25:09 +02:00
Robert Richter 4c168eaf7e Revert "Oprofile Multiplexing Patch"
Reverting commit 1a960b402a for the main
branch. Multiplexing will be tracked on a separate feature branch.

Conflicts:

    arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c
2008-09-24 11:08:52 +02:00
Jason Yeh 1a960b402a Oprofile Multiplexing Patch
This patch introduces multiplexing support for the Oprofile kernel
module. It basically adds a new function pointer in oprofile_operator
allowing each architecture to supply its callback to switch between
different sets of event when the timer expires. Userspace tools can
modify the time slice through /dev/oprofile/time_slice.

It also modifies the number of counters exposed to the userspace through
/dev/oprofile. For example, the number of counters for AMD CPUs are
changed to 32 and multiplexed in the sets of 4.

Signed-off-by: Jason Yeh <jason.yeh@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: oprofile-list <oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-26 11:48:16 +02:00
Paolo Ciarrocchi 8b45b72b04 x86: coding style fixes to arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_ppro.c
no code changed:

arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_ppro.o:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   1765       0      16    1781     6f5 op_model_ppro.o.before
   1765       0      16    1781     6f5 op_model_ppro.o.after
md5:
71c7f68d2197d686e3d1121bc18a6b6e  op_model_ppro.o.before.asm
71c7f68d2197d686e3d1121bc18a6b6e  op_model_ppro.o.after.asm

Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:40:48 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner ff4395654d i386: move oprofile
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-11 11:16:55 +02:00