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  1. Sep 21, 2009
    • Uwe Kleine-König's avatar
    • 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
  2. Jul 02, 2009
    • David Howells's avatar
      FRV: Add basic performance counter support · 42ca4fb6
      David Howells authored
      
      
      Add basic performance counter support to the FRV arch.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      42ca4fb6
    • David Howells's avatar
      FRV: Implement atomic64_t · 00460f41
      David Howells authored
      
      
      Implement atomic64_t and its ops for FRV.  Tested with the following patch:
      
      	diff --git a/arch/frv/kernel/setup.c b/arch/frv/kernel/setup.c
      	index 55e4fab..086d50d 100644
      	--- a/arch/frv/kernel/setup.c
      	+++ b/arch/frv/kernel/setup.c
      	@@ -746,6 +746,52 @@ static void __init parse_cmdline_early(char *cmdline)
      
      	 } /* end parse_cmdline_early() */
      
      	+static atomic64_t xxx;
      	+
      	+static void test_atomic64(void)
      	+{
      	+	atomic64_set(&xxx, 0x12300000023LL);
      	+
      	+	mb();
      	+	BUG_ON(atomic64_read(&xxx) != 0x12300000023LL);
      	+	mb();
      	+	if (atomic64_inc_return(&xxx) != 0x12300000024LL)
      	+		BUG();
      	+	mb();
      	+	BUG_ON(atomic64_read(&xxx) != 0x12300000024LL);
      	+	mb();
      	+	if (atomic64_sub_return(0x36900000050LL, &xxx) != -0x2460000002cLL)
      	+		BUG();
      	+	mb();
      	+	BUG_ON(atomic64_read(&xxx) != -0x2460000002cLL);
      	+	mb();
      	+	if (atomic64_dec_return(&xxx) != -0x2460000002dLL)
      	+		BUG();
      	+	mb();
      	+	BUG_ON(atomic64_read(&xxx) != -0x2460000002dLL);
      	+	mb();
      	+	if (atomic64_add_return(0x36800000001LL, &xxx) != 0x121ffffffd4LL)
      	+		BUG();
      	+	mb();
      	+	BUG_ON(atomic64_read(&xxx) != 0x121ffffffd4LL);
      	+	mb();
      	+	if (atomic64_cmpxchg(&xxx, 0x123456789abcdefLL, 0x121ffffffd4LL) != 0x121ffffffd4LL)
      	+		BUG();
      	+	mb();
      	+	BUG_ON(atomic64_read(&xxx) != 0x121ffffffd4LL);
      	+	mb();
      	+	if (atomic64_cmpxchg(&xxx, 0x121ffffffd4LL, 0x123456789abcdefLL) != 0x121ffffffd4LL)
      	+		BUG();
      	+	mb();
      	+	BUG_ON(atomic64_read(&xxx) != 0x123456789abcdefLL);
      	+	mb();
      	+	if (atomic64_xchg(&xxx, 0xabcdef123456789LL) != 0x123456789abcdefLL)
      	+		BUG();
      	+	mb();
      	+	BUG_ON(atomic64_read(&xxx) != 0xabcdef123456789LL);
      	+	mb();
      	+}
      	+
      	 /*****************************************************************************/
      	 /*
      	  *
      	@@ -845,6 +891,8 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
      	 //	asm volatile("movgs %0,timerd" :: "r"(10000000));
      	 //	__set_HSR(0, __get_HSR(0) | HSR0_ETMD);
      
      	+	test_atomic64();
      	+
      	 } /* end setup_arch() */
      
      	 #if 0
      
      Note that this doesn't cover all the trivial wrappers, but does cover all the
      substantial implementations.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      00460f41
  3. Feb 03, 2008
  4. Dec 03, 2006
  5. Jan 09, 2006
  6. Apr 16, 2005
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      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!
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