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2009-07-20oprofile: Implement performance counter multiplexingJason Yeh
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>
2009-06-11x86/oprofile: introduce oprofile_add_data64()Robert Richter
The IBS implemention writes 64 bit register values to the cpu buffer by writing two 32 values using oprofile_add_data(). This patch introduces oprofile_add_data64() to write a single 64 bit value to the buffer. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-06-11oprofile: remove irq_flags in struct op_entryRobert Richter
This became obsolete with this commit: 304cc6a ring_buffer: remove unused flags parameter, fix Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-01-07oprofile: make new cpu buffer functions part of the apiRobert Richter
This patch creates the new functions oprofile_write_reserve() oprofile_add_data() oprofile_write_commit() and makes them part of the oprofile api. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-12-10oprofile: update comment for oprofile_add_sample()Robert Richter
The cpu argument is no longer part of the parameter list. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-10-21powerpc/oprofile: Fix mutex locking for cell spu-oprofileCarl Love
The issue is the SPU code is not holding the kernel mutex lock while adding samples to the kernel buffer. This patch creates per SPU buffers to hold the data. Data is added to the buffers from in interrupt context. The data is periodically pushed to the kernel buffer via a new Oprofile function oprofile_put_buff(). The oprofile_put_buff() function is called via a work queue enabling the funtion to acquire the mutex lock. The existing user controls for adjusting the per CPU buffer size is used to control the size of the per SPU buffers. Similarly, overflows of the SPU buffers are reported by incrementing the per CPU buffer stats. This eliminates the need to have architecture specific controls for the per SPU buffers which is not acceptable to the OProfile user tool maintainer. The export of the oprofile add_event_entry() is removed as it is no longer needed given this patch. Note, this patch has not addressed the issue of indexing arrays by the spu number. This still needs to be fixed as the spu numbering is not guarenteed to be 0 to max_num_spus-1. Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Acked-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-26OProfile: add IBS code macrosRobert Richter
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: oprofile-list <oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Barry Kasindorf <barry.kasindorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-20[CELL] oprofile: add support to OProfile for profiling CELL BE SPUsBob Nelson
From: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com> This patch updates the existing arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_cell.c to add in the SPU profiling capabilities. In addition, a 'cell' subdirectory was added to arch/powerpc/oprofile to hold Cell-specific SPU profiling code. Exports spu_set_profile_private_kref and spu_get_profile_private_kref which are used by OProfile to store private profile information in spufs data structures. Also incorporated several fixes from other patches (rrn). Check pointer returned from kzalloc. Eliminated unnecessary cast. Better error handling and cleanup in the related area. 64-bit unsigned long parameter was being demoted to 32-bit unsigned int and eventually promoted back to unsigned long. Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Nelson <rrnelson@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inodeArjan van de Ven
Mark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the ripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then "do stuff" with it. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] Add oprofile_add_ext_sampleBrian Rogan
On ppc64 we look at a profiling register to work out the sample address and if it was in userspace or kernel. The backtrace interface oprofile_add_sample does not allow this. Create oprofile_add_ext_sample and make oprofile_add_sample use it too. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
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!