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>
In preparation to the renames, to avoid a namespace clash.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is in preparation of the big rename, but also makes sense
in a standalone way: 'list_entry' is a bad name as we already
have a list_entry() in list.h.
Also, the 'counter list' is too vague, it doesnt tell us the
purpose of that list.
Clarify these names to show that it's all about the group
hiearchy.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
By removing the need for it to know details of scheduling classes.
This allows PlugSched to define orthogonal scheduling classes.
Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <06d1b89ee15a0eef82d7.1253496713@mudlark.pw.nest>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Commit 5622f295 ("x86, perf_counter, bts: Optimize BTS overflow
handling") removed the regs field from struct perf_sample_data and
added a regs parameter to perf_counter_overflow(). This breaks the
build on powerpc (and Sparc) as reported by Sachin Sant:
arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c: In function 'record_and_restart':
arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c:1165: error: unknown field 'regs' specified in initializer
This adjusts arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c to correspond with the
new struct perf_sample_data and perf_counter_overflow().
[ v2: also fix Sparc, Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> ]
Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <19127.8400.376239.586120@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
VGA arb requires DRM support for non-kms drivers, to turn on/off
irqs when disabling the mem/io regions.
VGA arb requires KMS support for GPUs where we can turn off VGA
decoding. Currently we know how to do this for intel and radeon
kms drivers, which allows them to be removed from the arbiter.
This patch comes from Fedora rawhide kernel.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
This patch makes sure the CP doesn't DMA do VRAM while 2D
is active by inserting a CP resync token.
todo: port to kms.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
This resumes my
RV730PRO (4650)
RV770 (4850)
fine.
Still researching the RV4550 (RV710), resumes without X fine.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Ingo points out that I screwed up when merging the 'timers-for-linus'
branch in commit a03fdb7612.
A bit too much copy-and-pasting caused the end result to have an
extraneous 'return' in the middle of an expression. That was obviously
bogus. Blush.
Reported-by-with-patch: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6: (79 commits)
USB serial: update the console driver
usb-serial: straighten out serial_open
usb-serial: add missing tests and debug lines
usb-serial: rename subroutines
usb-serial: fix termios initialization logic
usb-serial: acquire references when a new tty is installed
usb-serial: change logic of serial lookups
usb-serial: put subroutines in logical order
usb-serial: change referencing of port and serial structures
tty: Char: mxser, use THRE for ASPP_OQUEUE ioctl
tty: Char: mxser, add support for CP112UL
uartlite: support shared interrupt lines
tty: USB: serial/mct_u232, fix tty refcnt
tty: riscom8, fix tty refcnt
tty: riscom8, fix shutdown declaration
TTY: fix typos
tty: Power: fix suspend vt regression
tty: vt: use printk_once
tty: handle VT specific compat ioctls in vt driver
n_tty: move echoctl check and clean up logic
...
* 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (58 commits)
perf_counter: Fix perf_copy_attr() pointer arithmetic
perf utils: Use a define for the maximum length of a trace event
perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help"
tracing, x86, cpuidle: Move the end point of a C state in the power tracer
perf utils: Be consistent about minimum text size in the svghelper
perf timechart: Add "perf timechart record"
perf: Add the timechart tool
perf: Add a SVG helper library file
tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer
perf: Add a sample_event type to the event_union
perf: Allow perf utilities to have "callback" options without arguments
perf: Store trace event name/id pairs in perf.data
perf: Add a timestamp to fork events
sched_clock: Make it NMI safe
perf_counter: Fix up swcounter throttling
x86, perf_counter, bts: Optimize BTS overflow handling
perf sched: Add --input=file option to builtin-sched.c
perf trace: Sample timestamp and cpu when using record flag
perf tools: Increase MAX_EVENT_LENGTH
perf tools: Fix memory leak in read_ftrace_printk()
...
On an AMD-64 system the processor frequency that is printed during
system boot, may be different than the tsc frequency that was
returned by the hypervisor, due to the value returned from
calibrate_cpu.
For debugging timekeeping or other related issues it might be
better to get the tsc_khz value returned by the hypervisor.
The patch below now prints the tsc frequency that the VMware
hypervisor returned.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
LKML-Reference: <1252095219.12518.13.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
While these don't get actively used (afaict), it still doesn't hurt
for them to properly reflect what how respective segments will get
mapped/ accessed.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AA0E95F0200007800013707@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add missing annotations, and make use of include/linux/init.h's
macros.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AA0E8F60200007800013703@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
On one of my systems, several thousand iterations are needed before
CMD_RESET can be observed clear after setting it. Using a much
higher value here obviously cannot hurt.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AA0E85D02000078000136F9@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled but doms_cur alloc failed in
arch_init_sched_domains(), doms_cur will move back to
fallback_doms. But this time, fallback_doms has not been
initialized yet.
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
LKML-Reference: <1252930816-7672-1-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: "Tan Wei Chong" <wei.chong.tan@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1253137123-18047-2-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In case of discrete (pretty old) apics we may have cpu_has_apic bit
not set but have to check if smp_found_config (MP spec) is there
and apic was not disabled.
Also don't forget to print apic/io-apic for such case as well.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090915071230.GA10604@lenovo>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Perhaps this is a more readable/standard form.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
LKML-Reference: <1252945687.3937.14.camel@Joe-Laptop.home>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
runqueue_is_locked() is unavoidably racy due to a poor interface design.
It does
cpu = get_cpu()
ret = some_perpcu_thing(cpu);
put_cpu(cpu);
return ret;
Its return value is unreliable.
Fix.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <200909191855.n8JItiko022148@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Dave noticed that we leak the PMU resource reservations when we
fail the hardware counter init.
Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
LKML-Reference: <1252483487.7746.164.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tweak the output SVG to increase performance in SVG viewers by
limiting the different types of font sizes and by smarter
transformations on the text.
At least with Inkscape this gives a notable performance improvement
during zoom and scrolling.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090920181438.3a49cb93@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds a command line option for timechart that allows the
user to specify the width of the SVG file.
This patch also makes sure that each second of recording has at
least 200 units (pixels at 96 DPI) of width. This impacts
recordings longer than 5 seconds; recordings shorter than 5 second
will scale up to have a width of 1000 units for the whole recording
(as before).
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090920181416.69570c5d@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Given that scheduler latencies are the hot thing nowadays, show the
duration of said latencies in the SVG in text form.
In addition, if the latency is more than 10 msec, pick a brighter
yellow color as a way to point these long delays out.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090920181353.796f4509@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Timechart currently shows thin green lines for sending or receiving
wakeups. This patch also prints (in a very small font) the name of
the process that is being woken/wakes up this process.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090920181328.68baa978@linux.intel.com>
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>
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c: trace.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <1247068617.4382.107.camel@ht.satnam>
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
include/linux/ftrace.h: linux/sched.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <1247068321.4382.102.camel@ht.satnam>
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
include/linux/page_cgroup.h: linux/swap.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
include/linux/aio.h: linux/aio_abi.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: bcrl@kvack.org
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <1247068254.4382.101.camel@ht.satnam>
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
include/drm/drm_memory.h: linux/vmalloc.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <1247068169.4382.99.camel@ht.satnam>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
include/acpi/acpi_bus.h: linux/device.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <1247068058.4382.96.camel@ht.satnam>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
drivers/xen/evtchn.c: linux/errno.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: chrisw@sous-sol.org
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <1247067749.4382.90.camel@ht.satnam>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
drivers/video/console/vgacon.c: linux/slab.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Cc: mchehab@infradead.org
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <1247067624.4382.88.camel@ht.satnam>
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c: asm/firmware.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <1247067016.4382.78.camel@ht.satnam>
Acked-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
drivers/scsi/fcoe/libfcoe.c: linux/netdevice.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <1247066936.4382.76.camel@ht.satnam>
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/shadow.c: linux/module.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <1247065179.4382.51.camel@ht.satnam>
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
arch/x86/kernel/traps.c: asm/traps.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <1247065094.4382.49.camel@ht.satnam>
