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  9. Sep 21, 2009
    • Anand Gadiyar's avatar
      trivial: fix typo "for for" in multiple files · 411c9403
      Anand Gadiyar authored 
      

trivial: fix typo "for for" in multiple files

Signed-off-by: default avatarAnand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
      411c9403
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events · cdd6c482
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      

Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

  FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

  sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

  for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
  done

  FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
  with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
  over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
  in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
  better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
  instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )

Suggested-by: default avatarStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      cdd6c482
  11. Sep 20, 2009
    • Sam Ravnborg's avatar
      kbuild: use INSTALLKERNEL to select customized installkernel script · caa27b66
      Sam Ravnborg authored 
      

Replace the use of CROSS_COMPILE to select a customized
installkernel script with the possibility to set INSTALLKERNEL
to select a custom installkernel script when running make:

    make INSTALLKERNEL=arm-installkernel install

With this patch we are now more consistent across
different architectures - they did not all support use
of CROSS_COMPILE.

The use of CROSS_COMPILE was a hack as this really belongs
to gcc/binutils and the installkernel script does not change
just because we change toolchain.

The use of CROSS_COMPILE caused troubles with an upcoming patch
that saves CROSS_COMPILE when a kernel is built - it would no
longer be installable.
[Thanks to Peter Z. for this hint]

This patch undos what Ian did in commit:

  0f8e2d62
  ("use ${CROSS_COMPILE}installkernel in arch/*/boot/install.sh")

The patch has been lightly tested on x86 only - but all changes
looks obvious.

Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [blackfin]
Acked-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> [arm]
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> [sh]
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> [x86]
Cc: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [ia64]
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> [ia64]
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> [m32r]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> [parisc]
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [powerpc]
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390]
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [x86]
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> [x86]
Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      caa27b66
  13. Sep 17, 2009