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Ingo Molnar a5a2bad55d Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core 2010-09-24 09:12:05 +02:00
Jason Baron bf5438fca2 jump label: Base patch for jump label
base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline
assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto'
statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently
be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which
might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed.
Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for.

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <ee8b3595967989fdaf84e698dc7447d315ce972a.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>

[ cleaned up some formating ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-22 16:29:41 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu 05ed160e89 kprobes: Fix Kconfig dependency
Fix Kconfig dependency among Kprobes, optprobe and kallsyms.

Kprobes uses kallsyms_lookup for finding target function and
checking instruction boundary, thus CONFIG_KPROBES should select
CONFIG_KALLSYMS.

Optprobe is an optional feature which is supported on x86 arch,
and it also uses kallsyms_lookup for checking instructions in
the target function. Since KALLSYMS_ALL just adds symbols of
kernel variables, it doesn't need to select KALLSYMS_ALL.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100913102541.20260.85700.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-13 20:41:31 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 61be7fdec2 Merge branch 'perf/nmi' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/Makefile

Merge reason: Add the now complete topic, fix the conflict.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-05 08:45:05 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 23637d477c lockup_detector: Introduce CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
This new config is deemed to simplify even more the lockup detector
dependencies and can make it easier to bring a smooth sorting
between archs that support the new generic lockup detector and those
that still have their own, especially for those that are in the
middle of this migration.

Instead of checking whether we have CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR +
CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS_NMI each time an arch wants to know if it needs
to build its own lockup detector, take a shortcut with this new
config. It is enabled only if the hardlockup detection part of
the whole lockup detector is on.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
2010-05-16 01:57:42 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker c01d432330 lockup_detector: Adapt CONFIG_PERF_EVENT_NMI to other archs
CONFIG_PERF_EVENT_NMI is something that need to be enabled from the
arch. This is fine on x86 as PERF_EVENTS is builtin but if other
archs select it, they will need to handle the PERF_EVENTS dependency.

Instead, handle the dependency in the generic layer:

- archs need to tell what they support through HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
- Enable magically PERF_EVENTS_NMI if we have PERF_EVENTS and
  HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
2010-05-16 01:57:36 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 0102752e4c hw-breakpoints: Separate constraint space for data and instruction breakpoints
There are two outstanding fashions for archs to implement hardware
breakpoints.

The first is to separate breakpoint address pattern definition
space between data and instruction breakpoints. We then have
typically distinct instruction address breakpoint registers
and data address breakpoint registers, delivered with
separate control registers for data and instruction breakpoints
as well. This is the case of PowerPc and ARM for example.

The second consists in having merged breakpoint address space
definition between data and instruction breakpoint. Address
registers can host either instruction or data address and
the access mode for the breakpoint is defined in a control
register. This is the case of x86 and Super H.

This patch adds a new CONFIG_HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS config
that archs can select if they belong to the second case. Those
will have their slot allocation merged for instructions and
data breakpoints.

The others will have a separate slot tracking between data and
instruction breakpoints.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-01 04:32:11 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu 5cc718b9da kprobes: Hide CONFIG_OPTPROBES and set if arch supports optimized kprobes
Hide CONFIG_OPTPROBES and set if the arch supports optimized
kprobes (IOW, HAVE_OPTPROBES=y), since this option doesn't
change the major behavior of kprobes, and workarounds for minor
changes are documented.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Dieter Ries <mail@dieterries.net>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100315170054.31593.3153.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-16 11:07:23 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 660f6a360b Merge branch 'perf-probes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-probes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Issue at least one memory barrier in stop_machine_text_poke()
  perf probe: Correct probe syntax on command line help
  perf probe: Add lazy line matching support
  perf probe: Show more lines after last line
  perf probe: Check function address range strictly in line finder
  perf probe: Use libdw callback routines
  perf probe: Use elfutils-libdw for analyzing debuginfo
  perf probe: Rename probe finder functions
  perf probe: Fix bugs in line range finder
  perf probe: Update perf probe document
  perf probe: Do not show --line option without dwarf support
  kprobes: Add documents of jump optimization
  kprobes/x86: Support kprobes jump optimization on x86
  x86: Add text_poke_smp for SMP cross modifying code
  kprobes/x86: Cleanup save/restore registers
  kprobes/x86: Boost probes when reentering
  kprobes: Jump optimization sysctl interface
  kprobes: Introduce kprobes jump optimization
  kprobes: Introduce generic insn_slot framework
  kprobes/x86: Cleanup RELATIVEJUMP_INSTRUCTION to RELATIVEJUMP_OPCODE
2010-03-05 10:50:22 -08:00
Linus Torvalds e0d272429a Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (28 commits)
  ftrace: Add function names to dangling } in function graph tracer
  tracing: Simplify memory recycle of trace_define_field
  tracing: Remove unnecessary variable in print_graph_return
  tracing: Fix typo of info text in trace_kprobe.c
  tracing: Fix typo in prof_sysexit_enable()
  tracing: Remove CONFIG_TRACE_POWER from kernel config
  tracing: Fix ftrace_event_call alignment for use with gcc 4.5
  ftrace: Remove memory barriers from NMI code when not needed
  tracing/kprobes: Add short documentation for HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
  s390: Add pt_regs register and stack access API
  tracing/kprobes: Make Kconfig dependencies generic
  tracing: Unify arch_syscall_addr() implementations
  tracing: Add notrace to TRACE_EVENT implementation functions
  ftrace: Allow to remove a single function from function graph filter
  tracing: Add correct/incorrect to sort keys for branch annotation output
  tracing: Simplify test for function_graph tracing start point
  tracing: Drop the tr check from the graph tracing path
  tracing: Add stack dump to trace_printk if stacktrace option is set
  tracing: Use appropriate perl constructs in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: optimize recordmcount.pl for offsets-handling
  ...
2010-02-28 10:17:55 -08:00
Robert Richter 013cfc5067 oprofile/x86: remove OPROFILE_IBS config option
OProfile support for IBS is now for several versions in the
kernel. The feature is stable now and the code can be activated
permanently.

As a side effect IBS now works also on nosmp configs.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2010-02-26 15:13:55 +01:00
Robert Richter b309a294e5 oprofile: remove EXPERIMENTAL from the config option description
OProfile is already used for a long time and no longer experimental.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2010-02-26 15:13:54 +01:00
Robert Richter 18b4a4d59e oprofile: remove tracing build dependency
The commit

 1155de4 ring-buffer: Make it generally available

already made ring-buffer available without the TRACING option
enabled. This patch removes the TRACING dependency from oprofile.

Fixes also oprofile configuration on ia64.

The patch also applies to the 2.6.32-stable kernel.

Reported-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2010-02-26 14:52:52 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu afd66255b9 kprobes: Introduce kprobes jump optimization
Introduce kprobes jump optimization arch-independent parts.
Kprobes uses breakpoint instruction for interrupting execution
flow, on some architectures, it can be replaced by a jump
instruction and interruption emulation code. This gains kprobs'
performance drastically.

To enable this feature, set CONFIG_OPTPROBES=y (default y if the
arch supports OPTPROBE).

Changes in v9:
 - Fix a bug to optimize probe when enabling.
 - Check nearby probes can be optimize/unoptimize when disarming/arming
   kprobes, instead of registering/unregistering. This will help
   kprobe-tracer because most of probes on it are usually disabled.

Changes in v6:
 - Cleanup coding style for readability.
 - Add comments around get/put_online_cpus().

Changes in v5:
 - Use get_online_cpus()/put_online_cpus() for avoiding text_mutex
   deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100225133407.6725.81992.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25 17:49:24 +01:00
Heiko Carstens e01292b1fd tracing/kprobes: Add short documentation for HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
So that arch developers know how to implement it without the
need to dig into changelogs.

Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100218132521.GB2406@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
[added reference to ptrace.h in the config help]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-02-22 17:05:51 +01:00
Heiko Carstens f850c30c8b tracing/kprobes: Make Kconfig dependencies generic
KPROBES_EVENT actually depends on the regs and stack access API
(b1cf540f) and not on x86.
So introduce a new config option which architectures can select if
they have the API implemented and switch x86.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100210162517.GB6933@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-02-17 13:13:08 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 99e8c5a3b8 hw-breakpoints: Fix hardware breakpoints -> perf events dependency
The kbuild's select command doesn't propagate through the config
dependencies.

Hence the current rules of hardware breakpoint's config can't
ensure perf can never be disabled under us.

We have:

config X86
	selects HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS

config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS
	select PERF_EVENTS

config PERF_EVENTS
	[...]

x86 will select the breakpoints but that won't propagate to perf
events. The user can still disable the latter, but it is
necessary for the breakpoints.

What we need is:

 - x86 selects HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS and PERF_EVENTS
 - HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS depends on PERF_EVENTS

so that we ensure PERF_EVENTS is enabled and frozen for x86.

This fixes the following kind of build errors:

 In file included from arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:31:
 include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h: In function 'hw_breakpoint_addr':
 include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h:39: error: 'struct perf_event' has no member named 'attr'

v2: Select also ANON_INODES from x86, required for perf

Reported-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Andrew Randrianasulu <randrik_a@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1261010034-7786-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-18 13:11:51 +01:00
Linus Torvalds ed9216c171 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (84 commits)
  KVM: VMX: Fix comparison of guest efer with stale host value
  KVM: s390: Fix prefix register checking in arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c
  KVM: Drop user return notifier when disabling virtualization on a cpu
  KVM: VMX: Disable unrestricted guest when EPT disabled
  KVM: x86 emulator: limit instructions to 15 bytes
  KVM: s390: Make psw available on all exits, not just a subset
  KVM: x86: Add KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS
  KVM: VMX: Report unexpected simultaneous exceptions as internal errors
  KVM: Allow internal errors reported to userspace to carry extra data
  KVM: Reorder IOCTLs in main kvm.h
  KVM: x86: Polish exception injection via KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG
  KVM: only clear irq_source_id if irqchip is present
  KVM: x86: disallow KVM_{SET,GET}_LAPIC without allocated in-kernel lapic
  KVM: x86: disallow multiple KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP
  KVM: VMX: Remove vmx->msr_offset_efer
  KVM: MMU: update invlpg handler comment
  KVM: VMX: move CR3/PDPTR update to vmx_set_cr3
  KVM: remove duplicated task_switch check
  KVM: powerpc: Fix BUILD_BUG_ON condition
  KVM: VMX: Use shared msr infrastructure
  ...

Trivial conflicts due to new Kconfig options in arch/Kconfig and kernel/Makefile
2009-12-08 08:02:38 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker 24f1e32c60 hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events
This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of
perf events instances.

Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the
register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc..

The new layering is now made as follows:

       ptrace       kgdb      ftrace   perf syscall
          \          |          /         /
           \         |         /         /
                                        /
            Core breakpoint API        /
                                      /
                     |               /
                     |              /

              Breakpoints perf events

                     |
                     |

               Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling
                                    (Part of core breakpoint API)
                     |
                     |

             Hardware debug registers

Reasons of this rewrite:

- Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling,
  implying an easier arch integration
- More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible
  events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...)

Impact:

- New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters
- Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per
  thread breakpoints references.

Todo (in the order):

- Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement
  perf_bpcounter_event())
- Support from perf tools

Changes in v2:

- Follow the perf "event " rename
- The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events
  weren't released when a task ended)
- Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in
  perf_event_attr.
- Separate core and arch specific headers, drop
  asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h
- Use new generic len/type for breakpoint
- Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch

Changes in v3:

- Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api
  changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers
  to the host.

Changes in v4:

- Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a
  module
- Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit:
  TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running
  breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be
  set when the guest used debug registers.
  (Waiting for a reliable optimization)

Changes in v5:

- Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to
  linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch
- Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest
  to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active
  breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up
  address registers.
- Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild
- Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c

Changes in v6:

- Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build
  error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-11-08 15:34:42 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 0f8f86c7bd Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint
Conflicts:
	kernel/Makefile
	kernel/trace/Makefile
	kernel/trace/trace.h
	samples/Makefile

Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development
branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of
perf events.
2009-10-18 01:12:33 +02:00
Avi Kivity 7c68af6e32 core, x86: Add user return notifiers
Add a general per-cpu notifier that is called whenever the kernel is
about to return to userspace.  The notifier uses a thread_info flag
and existing checks, so there is no impact on user return or context
switch fast paths.

This will be used initially to speed up KVM task switching by lazily
updating MSRs.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1253342422-13811-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-10-01 12:12:18 -07:00
Christian Borntraeger 9a5963eb49 oprofile: fix oprofile regression: select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
commit 85bac32c4a
    ring-buffer: only enable ring_buffer_swap_cpu when needed
broke oprofile (at least on s390, but likely on all platforms).

this patch lets oprofile select RING_BUFER_ALLOW_SWAP to make
ring_buffer_swap_cpu usable for oprofile.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <200909162156.49239.borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-17 15:53:42 -04:00
Ingo Molnar dca2d6ac09 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c

Semantic conflict fixed in:
	arch/x86/kvm/x86.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 12:18:15 +02:00
Ingo Molnar a1922ed661 Merge branch 'tracing/core' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts:
	arch/Kconfig
	kernel/trace/trace.h

Merge reason: resolve the conflicts, plus adopt to the new
              ring-buffer APIs.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-07 08:19:51 +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