linux/include
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
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acpi Merge branch 'bjorn-notify' into release 2009-06-24 01:22:20 -04:00
asm-generic Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes 2009-07-04 09:46:01 -07:00
crypto
drm drm: Fix shifts which were miscalculated when converting from bitfields. 2009-06-24 16:11:04 +10:00
keys
linux oprofile: Implement performance counter multiplexing 2009-07-20 16:33:53 +02:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (12135): Add a driver for mt9v011 sensor 2009-07-05 14:30:02 -03:00
mtd Kill jffs2-user.h 2009-06-05 17:31:38 +01:00
net memory barrier: adding smp_mb__after_lock 2009-07-09 17:06:58 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma
rxrpc
scsi sd, sr: fix Driver 'sd' needs updating message 2009-06-21 12:01:27 -05:00
sound Merge branch 'topic/pcm-jiffies-check' into for-linus 2009-06-10 07:26:41 +02:00
trace ext4: convert instrumentation from markers to tracepoints 2009-06-17 11:48:11 -04:00
video fbdev: s1d13xxxfb: add accelerated bitblt functions 2009-06-16 19:48:00 -07:00
xen
Kbuild [SCSI] FC Pass Thru support 2009-06-12 14:20:05 -05:00