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: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c: linux/smp.h is included more than once. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <1252087783.6385.10.camel@ht.satnam>
* 'x86-percpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, percpu: Collect hot percpu variables into one cacheline x86, percpu: Fix DECLARE/DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED() x86, percpu: Add 'percpu_read_stable()' interface for cacheable accesses
* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Make memtype_seq_ops const x86: uv: Clean up uv_ptc_init(), use proc_create() x86: Use printk_once() x86/cpu: Clean up various files a bit x86: Remove duplicated #include x86, ipi: Clean up safe_smp_processor_id() by using the cpu_has_apic() macro helper x86: Clean up idt_descr and idt_tableby using NR_VECTORS instead of hardcoded number x86: Further clean up of mtrr/generic.c x86: Clean up mtrr/main.c x86: Clean up mtrr/state.c x86: Clean up mtrr/mtrr.h x86: Clean up mtrr/if.c x86: Clean up mtrr/generic.c x86: Clean up mtrr/cyrix.c x86: Clean up mtrr/cleanup.c x86: Clean up mtrr/centaur.c x86: Clean up mtrr/amd.c: x86: ds.c fix invalid assignment
Pack aligned things together into a special section to minimize padding holes. Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <4AA035C0.9070202@goop.org> [ queued up in tip:x86/asm because it depends on this commit: x86/i386: Make sure stack-protector segment base is cache aligned ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The Intel Optimization Reference Guide says: In Intel Atom microarchitecture, the address generation unit assumes that the segment base will be 0 by default. Non-zero segment base will cause load and store operations to experience a delay. - If the segment base isn't aligned to a cache line boundary, the max throughput of memory operations is reduced to one [e]very 9 cycles. [...] Assembly/Compiler Coding Rule 15. (H impact, ML generality) For Intel Atom processors, use segments with base set to 0 whenever possible; avoid non-zero segment base address that is not aligned to cache line boundary at all cost. We can't avoid having a non-zero base for the stack-protector segment, but we can make it cache-aligned. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <4AA01893.6000507@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Merge reason: we were on -rc1 before - go up to -rc7 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Kernel is broken for x86 CPUs without CPUID since 2.6.28. It crashes with NULL pointer dereference in identify_cpu(): 766 generic_identify(c); 767 768--> if (this_cpu->c_identify) 769 this_cpu->c_identify(c); this_cpu is NULL. This is because it's only initialized in get_cpu_vendor() function, which is not called if the CPU has no CPUID instruction. Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> LKML-Reference: <200908112000.15993.linux@rainbow-software.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This crash: [ 0.891983] calling cache_sysfs_init+0x0/0x1ee @ 1 [ 0.897251] initcall cache_sysfs_init+0x0/0x1ee returned 0 after 405 usecs [ 0.904019] calling mce_init_device+0x0/0x242 @ 1 [ 0.909124] initcall mce_init_device+0x0/0x242 returned 0 after 347 usecs [ 0.915815] calling apm_init+0x0/0x38d @ 1 [ 0.919967] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac) [ 0.926813] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] [ 0.927269] last sysfs file: [ 0.927269] Modules linked in: [ 0.927269] [ 0.927269] Pid: 271, comm: kapmd Not tainted (2.6.31-rc3-00100-gd520da1-dirty #311) System Product Name [ 0.927269] EIP: 00c0:[<000082b2>] EFLAGS: 00010002 CPU: 0 [ 0.927269] EIP is at 0x82b2 [ 0.927269] EAX: 0000530e EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000102 EDX: 00000000 [ 0.927269] ESI: 00000000 EDI: f6a4bf44 EBP: 67890000 ESP: f6a4beec [ 0.927269] DS: 00c8 ES: 0000 FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 [ 0.927269] Process kapmd (pid: 271, ti=f6a4a000 task=f7142280 task.ti=f6a4a000) [ 0.927269] Stack: [ 0.927269] 0000828d 02160000 00b88092 f6a4bf3c c102a63d 00000060 f6a4bf3c f6a4bf44 [ 0.927269] <0> 0000007b 0000007b 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 560aae9e 00000000 [ 0.927269] <0> 00000200 f705fd74 00000000 c102af70 f6a4bf60 c102a6ec 0000530e 00000000 [ 0.927269] Call Trace: [ 0.927269] [<c102a63d>] ? __apm_bios_call_simple+0x7d/0x110 [ 0.927269] [<c102af70>] ? apm+0x0/0x6a0 [ 0.927269] [<c102a6ec>] ? apm_bios_call_simple+0x1c/0x50 [ 0.927269] [<c102b3f5>] ? apm+0x485/0x6a0 [ 0.927269] [<c1038e7a>] ? finish_task_switch+0x2a/0xb0 [ 0.927269] [<c164a69e>] ? schedule+0x31e/0x480 [ 0.927269] [<c102af70>] ? apm+0x0/0x6a0 [ 0.927269] [<c102af70>] ? apm+0x0/0x6a0 [ 0.927269] [<c1052654>] ? kthread+0x74/0x80 [ 0.927269] [<c10525e0>] ? kthread+0x0/0x80 [ 0.927269] [<c101d627>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 [ 0.927269] Code: Bad EIP value. [ 0.927269] EIP: [<000082b2>] 0x82b2 SS:ESP 0068:f6a4beec [ 0.927269] ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]--- [ 0.927269] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception [ 0.927269] Pid: 271, comm: kapmd Tainted: G D 2.6.31-rc3-00100-gd520da1-dirty #311 Is caused by an incorrect GDT_ENTRY_INIT() conversion in the apm code, as noticed by hpa. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Noticed-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090808094905.GA2954@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>