Delete unnecessary local variable whose value is always 0 and that hides
the fact that the result is always 0.
A simplified version of the semantic patch that fixes this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r exists@
local idexpression ret;
expression e;
position p;
@@
-ret = 0;
... when != ret = e
return
- ret
+ 0
;
// </smpl>
[heiko.carstens: turn prepare_cpu_buffers into a void returning function]
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Use the new defines for external interruption codes to get rid
of "magic" numbers in the s390 source code. And while we're at it,
also rename the (un-)register_external_interrupt function to
something shorter so that this patch does not exceed the 80
columns all over the place.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Also support the diagnostic-sampling function in addition to the basic-sampling
function. Diagnostic-sampling data entries contain hardware model specific
sampling data and additional programs are required to analyze the data.
To deliver diagnostic-sampling, as well, as basis-sampling data entries to user
space, introduce support for sampling "raw data". If this particular perf
sampling type (PERF_SAMPLE_RAW) is used, sampling data entries are copied
to user space. External programs can then analyze these data.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Introduce reserve/release functions to share the sampling facility
between perf and oprofile.
Also improve error handling for the sampling facility support in perf.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Extract and move the oprofile hwsampler data structures and interfaces to
the cpu_mf.h header file which contains common interface definitions
for the various CPU-measurement facilities. This change is necessary for
a new perf PMU.
Few interface names have been revised to fit to the latest CPU-measurement
facilities documentation. Also declare the data structures as __packed and
correct checkpatch findings.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Pull more s390 updates from Heiko Carstens:
"This includes one bpf/jit bug fix where the jit compiler could
sometimes write generated code out of bounds of the allocated memory
area.
The rest of the patches are only cleanups and minor improvements"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
s390/irq: reduce size of external interrupt handler hash array
s390/compat,uid16: use current_cred()
s390/ap_bus: use and-mask instead of a cast
s390/ftrace: avoid pointer arithmetics with function pointers
s390: make various functions static, add declarations to header files
s390/compat signal: add couple of __force annotations
s390/mm: add __releases()/__acquires() annotations to gmap_alloc_table()
s390: keep Kconfig sorted
s390/irq: rework irq subclass handling
s390/irq: use hlists for external interrupt handler array
s390/dumpstack: convert print_symbol to %pSR
s390/perf: Remove print_hex_dump_bytes() debug output
s390: update defconfig
s390/bpf,jit: fix address randomization
Let's not add a function for every external interrupt subclass for
which we need reference counting. Just have two register/unregister
functions which have a subclass parameter:
void irq_subclass_register(enum irq_subclass subclass);
void irq_subclass_unregister(enum irq_subclass subclass);
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
it's always equal to ->d_sb of the second argument (parent dentry),
due to either being literally that, or ->d_sb of parent's parent.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Just add the new model number where appropiate.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
There is a misleading naming of the program parameter fields, so
correct them according to their names as outlined in
"The Load-Program-Parameter and the CPU-measurement Facilities"
(SA23-2260-03).
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This patch adds support for the latest release of the
IBM mainframe series - the IBM zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12).
The CPU measurement facility didn't change. So only the new CPU type
has to be tolerated.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Now that irq sum accounting for /proc/stat's "intr" line works again we
have the oddity that the sum field (first field) contains only the sum
of the second (external irqs) and third field (I/O interrupts).
The reason for that is that these two fields are already sums of all other
fields. So if we would sum up everything we would count every interrupt
twice.
This is broken since the split interrupt accounting was merged two years
ago: 052ff461c8 "[S390] irq: have detailed
statistics for interrupt types".
To fix this remove the split interrupt fields from /proc/stat's "intr"
line again and only have them in /proc/interrupts.
This restores the old behaviour, seems to be the only sane fix and mimics
a behaviour from other architectures where /proc/interrupts also contains
more than /proc/stat's "intr" line does.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
If oprofilefs_ulong_from_user() is called with count equals zero, *val
remains unchanged. Depending on the implementation it might be
uninitialized. Fixing users of oprofilefs_ulong_ from_user().
We missed these s390 changes with:
913050b oprofile: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to writing to oprofilefs
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.3+
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
We use the user_mode() helper already at several places but also
have the open coded variant at other places.
Convert the code to always use the helper function.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Remove the file name from the comment at top of many files. In most
cases the file name was wrong anyway, so it's rather pointless.
Also unify the IBM copyright statement. We did have a lot of sightly
different statements and wanted to change them one after another
whenever a file gets touched. However that never happened. Instead
people start to take the old/"wrong" statements to use as a template
for new files.
So unify all of them in one go.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
CPU-measurement alerts are generated for different CPU-measurement
facilities, for example, the sampling and counter facilities.
Split the irq stats according to available facilities.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system
Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells:
"Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of
separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion
dependencies.
I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can
and made sure that they don't break.
The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular
dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to
optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2().
This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in
asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h.
The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of
low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg.
memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that
aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()).
These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces:
(1) asm/barrier.h
Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha.
(2) asm/switch_to.h
Move switch_to() and related stuff here.
(3) asm/exec.h
Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits
could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h.
(4) asm/cmpxchg.h
Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and
frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg().
(5) asm/bug.h
Move die() and related bits.
(6) asm/auxvec.h
Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here.
Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis."
Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code
around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat
weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it..
* tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits)
Delete all instances of asm/system.h
Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h
Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h
Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC
Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h
Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h
Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h
Create asm-generic/barrier.h
Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt]
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc
Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH
Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score
Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300
...
Prepare the measurement facility which is currently only used by oprofile
for multiple users. To achieve that the measurement alert interrupt control
bit needs to be protected. The measurement alert definitions are moved
to a header file and an interrupt mask is added so that users can discard
interrupts if they are for a different measurement subsystem.
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The external interrupt handlers have a parameter called ext_int_code.
Besides the name this paramter does not only contain the ext_int_code
but in addition also the "cpu address" (POP) which caused the external
interrupt.
To make the code a bit more obvious pass a struct instead so the called
function can easily distinguish between external interrupt code and
cpu address. The cpu address field however is named "subcode" since
some external interrupt sources do not pass a cpu address but a
different parameter (or none at all).
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (106 commits)
perf kvm: Fix copy & paste error in description
perf script: Kill script_spec__delete
perf top: Fix a memory leak
perf stat: Introduce get_ratio_color() helper
perf session: Remove impossible condition check
perf tools: Fix feature-bits rework fallout, remove unused variable
perf script: Add generic perl handler to process events
perf tools: Use for_each_set_bit() to iterate over feature flags
perf tools: Unify handling of features when writing feature section
perf report: Accept fifos as input file
perf tools: Moving code in some files
perf tools: Fix out-of-bound access to struct perf_session
perf tools: Continue processing header on unknown features
perf tools: Improve macros for struct feature_ops
perf: builtin-record: Document and check that mmap_pages must be a power of two.
perf: builtin-record: Provide advice if mmap'ing fails with EPERM.
perf tools: Fix truncated annotation
perf script: look up thread using tid instead of pid
perf tools: Look up thread names for system wide profiling
perf tools: Fix comm for processes with named threads
...
If oprofilefs_ulong_from_user() is called with count equals
zero, *val remains unchanged. Depending on the implementation it
might be uninitialized.
Change oprofilefs_ulong_from_user()'s interface to return count
on success. Thus, we are able to return early if count equals
zero which avoids using *val uninitialized. Fixing all users of
oprofilefs_ulong_ from_user().
This follows write syscall implementation when count is zero:
"If count is zero ... [and if] no errors are detected, 0 will be
returned without causing any other effect." (man 2 write)
Reported-By: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: oprofile-list <oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111219153830.GH16765@erda.amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
With this patch the OProfile Basic Mode Sampling support for System z
is enhanced with a counter file system. That way hardware sampling
can be configured using the user space tools with only little
modifications.
With the patch by default new cpu_types (s390/z10, s390/z196) are
returned in order to indicate that we are running a CPU which provides
the hardware sampling facility. Existing user space tools will
complain about an unknown cpu type. In order to be compatible with
existing user space tools the `cpu_type' module parameter has been
added. Setting the parameter to `timer' will force the module to
return `timer' as cpu_type. The module will still try to use hardware
sampling if available and the hwsampling virtual filesystem will be
also be available for configuration. So this has a different effect
than using the generic oprofile module parameter `timer=1'.
If the basic mode sampling is enabled on the machine and the
cpu_type=timer parameter is not used the kernel module will provide
the following virtual filesystem:
/dev/oprofile/0/enabled
/dev/oprofile/0/event
/dev/oprofile/0/count
/dev/oprofile/0/unit_mask
/dev/oprofile/0/kernel
/dev/oprofile/0/user
In the counter file system only the values of 'enabled', 'count',
'kernel', and 'user' are evaluated by the kernel module. Everything
else must contain fixed values.
The 'event' value only supports a single event - HWSAMPLING with value
0.
The 'count' value specifies the hardware sampling rate as it is passed
to the CPU measurement facility.
The 'kernel' and 'user' flags can now be used to filter for samples
when using hardware sampling.
Additionally also the following file will be created:
/dev/oprofile/timer/enabled
This will always be the inverted value of /dev/oprofile/0/enabled. 0
is not accepted without hardware sampling.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Fix prototype of some functions in arch/s390/oprofile to avoid non-ANSI
warnings from sparse.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The sampling interval for the hardware sampler is specified in cycles.
(see SA23-2260-01 The Load-Program-Parameter and the CPU-Measurement
Facilities)
The current default value will therefore result in millions of samples.
This patch changes the default sampling interval to 4M, which will
result in ~1500 samples per second on a z196 reducing the overhead
of sampling.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
On specific configurations with hwsampler opcontrol --start returns an
error on "echo 1 >/dev/oprofile/enable". Turns out that the hw sampling
interval is not checked against the hardware limits.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Many stupid corrections of duplicated includes based on the output of
scripts/checkincludes.pl.
Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Ivanov <vitalivanov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The hardware sample cpu hotplug notifier always returns NOTIFY_BAD.
That will prevent cpu hotplug if the machine is enabled for hardware
sampling even if it is not used. Fix the cpu hotplug notifier and
allow cpu hotplug if hardware sampling is unused.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Merge irq.c and s390_ext.c into irq.c. That way all external interrupt
related functions are together.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The external interrupt parameter is passed as function call parameter.
No need to access lowcore.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Use ctl_set_bit instead of the smp_ctl_set_bit (likewise for clear bit)
to prevent the following build error for !CONFIG_SMP:
CC arch/s390/oprofile/hwsampler.o
arch/s390/oprofile/hwsampler.c: In function ‘hwsampler_deallocate’:
arch/s390/oprofile/hwsampler.c:1012: error: implicit declaration of function ‘smp_ctl_clear_bit’
arch/s390/oprofile/hwsampler.c: In function ‘hwsampler_start_all’:
arch/s390/oprofile/hwsampler.c:1201: error: implicit declaration of function ‘smp_ctl_set_bit’
CC kernel/seccomp.o
make[1]: *** [arch/s390/oprofile/hwsampler.o] Error 1
make: *** [arch/s390/oprofile] Error 2
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The counter for requested interrupts should be incremented if the
program-request-alert bit is set and not the invalid-address-entry
bit.
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
oprofile_min_interval and oprofile_max_interval are unsigned, checking
for negative values doesn't work. Change hwsampler_query_min_interval
and hwsampler_query_max_interval to return an unsigned long and
check for a zero value instead.
Reported-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Prevent stack corruption by memcpy which copies more bytes then
available at the destination. While at it use the new test_facility
to test for the facility bit.
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Doesn't work and build for CONFIG_32BIT. So disable it.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Remove unused HAVE_HWSAMPLER config option. It is not used anymore,
removing it.
Also make some functions static and some coding style fixes.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Merge the contents of hwsampler_files.c into
arch/s390/oprofile/init.c.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinz Graalfs <graalfs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Fixes the following section mismatch:
Section mismatch in reference from the variable hws_cpu_notifier to the function .cpuinit.text:hws_cpu_callback()
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
This patch is a rework of the hwsampler oprofile implementation that
has been applied recently. Now there are less non-architectural
changes. The only changes are:
* introduction of oprofile_add_ext_hw_sample(), and
* removal of section attributes of oprofile_timer_init/_exit().
To setup hwsampler for oprofile we need to modify start()/stop()
callbacks and additional hwsampler control files in oprofilefs. We do
not reinitialize the timer or hwsampler mode by restarting calling
init/exit() anymore, instead hwsampler_running is used to switch the
mode directly in oprofile_hwsampler_start/_stop(). For locking reasons
there is also hwsampler_file that reflects the value in oprofilefs.
The overall diffstat of the oprofile s390 hwsampler implemenation
shows the low impact to non-architectural code:
arch/Kconfig | 3 +
arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/s390/oprofile/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/s390/oprofile/hwsampler.c | 1256 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/s390/oprofile/hwsampler.h | 113 +++
arch/s390/oprofile/hwsampler_files.c | 162 +++++
arch/s390/oprofile/init.c | 6 +-
drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.c | 24 +-
drivers/oprofile/timer_int.c | 4 +-
include/linux/oprofile.h | 7 +
10 files changed, 1567 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
OProfile is enhanced to export all files for controlling System z's
hardware sampling, and to invoke hwsampler exported functions to
initialize and use System z's hardware sampling.
The patch invokes hwsampler_setup() during oprofile init and exports
following hwsampler files under oprofilefs if hwsampler's setup
succeeded:
A new directory for hardware sampling based files
/dev/oprofile/hwsampling/
The userland daemon must explicitly write to the following files
to disable (or enable) hardware based sampling
/dev/oprofile/hwsampling/hwsampler
to modify the actual sampling rate
/dev/oprofile/hwsampling/hw_interval
to modify the amount of sampling memory (measured in 4K pages)
/dev/oprofile/hwsampling/hw_sdbt_blocks
The following files are read only and show
the possible minimum sampling rate
/dev/oprofile/hwsampling/hw_min_interval
the possible maximum sampling rate
/dev/oprofile/hwsampling/hw_max_interval
The patch splits the oprofile_timer_[init/exit] function so that it
can be also called through user context (oprofilefs) to avoid kernel
oops.
Applied with following changes:
* whitespace changes in Makefile and timer_int.c
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Maran Pakkirisamy <maranp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinz Graalfs <graalfs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
This adds support for hardware based sampling on System z processors
(models z10 and up).
System z's hardware sampling is described in detail in:
SA23-2260-01 "The Load-Program-Parameter and CPU-Measurement Facilities"
The patch introduces
- support for System z's hardware sampler in OProfile's kernel module
- it adds functions that control all hardware sampling related
operations as:
- checking if hardware sampling feature is available, i.e.: on
System z models z10 and up, in LPAR mode only, and authorised
during LPAR activation
- allocating memory for the hardware sampling feature
- starting/stopping hardware sampling
All functions required to start and stop hardware sampling have to be
invoked by the oprofile kernel module as provided by the other patches
of this patch set.
In case hardware based sampling cannot be setup standard timer based
sampling is used by OProfile.
Applied with following changes:
* enable compilation in Makefile
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Maran Pakkirisamy <maranp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinz Graalfs <graalfs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Quoting Randy:
"It seems sad that this patch sources Kconfig.marker, a 7-line file,
20-something times. Yes, you (we) don't want to put those 7 lines into
20-something different files, so sourcing is the right thing.
However, what you did for avr32 seems more on the right track to me: make
_one_ Instrumentation support menu that includes PROFILING, OPROFILE, KPROBES,
and MARKERS and then use (source) that in all of the arches."
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!