Configuring counters from the userspace require the kernel to handle some
logic related to performance counters. Basically, it has to find a free
slot to assign a counter, to handle extra counting modes like B4/B6 and it
must return and error when it can't configure a counter.
In my opinion, the kernel should not handle all of that logic but it
should only write the configuration sent by the userspace without
checking anything. In other words, it should overwrite the configuration
even if it's already counting and do not return any errors.
This patch allows the userspace to configure a domain instead of
separate counters. This has the advantage to move all of the logic to
the userspace.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Pitoiset <samuel.pitoiset@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
This commit introduces the NVIF_IOCTL_NEW_V0_PERFMON class which will be
used in order to query domains, signals and sources. This separates the
querying and the counting interface.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Pitoiset <samuel.pitoiset@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
The symlinks were annoying some people, and they're not used anywhere
else in the kernel tree. The include directory structure has been
changed so that symlinks aren't needed anymore.
NVKM has been moved from core/ to nvkm/ to make it more obvious as to
what the directory is for, and as some minor prep for when NVKM gets
split out into its own module (virt) at a later date.
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Ben Skeggs