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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/oprofile/oprof.h, branch v3.4.75</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>oprofile: Fix oprofile_timer_exit() breakage</title>
<updated>2011-12-07T10:16:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Richter</name>
<email>robert.richter@amd.com</email>
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<published>2011-12-07T10:16:38+00:00</published>
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Removing remainings of oprofile_timer_exit() completly.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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Removing remainings of oprofile_timer_exit() completly.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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<title>oprofile, x86: Reimplement nmi timer mode using perf event</title>
<updated>2011-11-04T15:27:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Richter</name>
<email>robert.richter@amd.com</email>
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<published>2011-10-11T15:11:08+00:00</published>
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The legacy x86 nmi watchdog code was removed with the implementation
of the perf based nmi watchdog. This broke Oprofile's nmi timer
mode. To run nmi timer mode we relied on a continuous ticking nmi
source which the nmi watchdog provided. The nmi tick was no longer
available and current watchdog can not be used anymore since it runs
with very long periods in the range of seconds. This patch
reimplements the nmi timer mode using a perf counter nmi source.

V2:
* removing pr_info()
* fix undefined reference to `__udivdi3' for 32 bit build
* fix section mismatch of .cpuinit.data:nmi_timer_cpu_nb
* removed nmi timer setup in arch/x86
* implemented function stubs for op_nmi_init/exit()
* made code more readable in oprofile_init()

V3:
* fix architectural initialization in oprofile_init()
* fix CONFIG_OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER dependencies

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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The legacy x86 nmi watchdog code was removed with the implementation
of the perf based nmi watchdog. This broke Oprofile's nmi timer
mode. To run nmi timer mode we relied on a continuous ticking nmi
source which the nmi watchdog provided. The nmi tick was no longer
available and current watchdog can not be used anymore since it runs
with very long periods in the range of seconds. This patch
reimplements the nmi timer mode using a perf counter nmi source.

V2:
* removing pr_info()
* fix undefined reference to `__udivdi3' for 32 bit build
* fix section mismatch of .cpuinit.data:nmi_timer_cpu_nb
* removed nmi timer setup in arch/x86
* implemented function stubs for op_nmi_init/exit()
* made code more readable in oprofile_init()

V3:
* fix architectural initialization in oprofile_init()
* fix CONFIG_OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER dependencies

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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<title>oprofile: disable write access to oprofilefs while profiler is running</title>
<updated>2010-10-12T15:25:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Richter</name>
<email>robert.richter@amd.com</email>
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<published>2010-10-04T19:09:36+00:00</published>
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Oprofile counters are setup when profiling is disabled. Thus, writing
to oprofilefs has no immediate effect. Changes are updated only after
oprofile is reenabled.

To keep userland and kernel states synchronized, we now allow
configuration of oprofile only if profiling is disabled.  In this case
it checks if the profiler is running and then disables write access to
oprofilefs by returning -EBUSY. The change should be backward
compatible with current oprofile userland daemon.

Acked-by: Maynard Johnson &lt;maynardj@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: William Cohen &lt;wcohen@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit &lt;suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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Oprofile counters are setup when profiling is disabled. Thus, writing
to oprofilefs has no immediate effect. Changes are updated only after
oprofile is reenabled.

To keep userland and kernel states synchronized, we now allow
configuration of oprofile only if profiling is disabled.  In this case
it checks if the profiler is running and then disables write access to
oprofilefs by returning -EBUSY. The change should be backward
compatible with current oprofile userland daemon.

Acked-by: Maynard Johnson &lt;maynardj@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: William Cohen &lt;wcohen@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit &lt;suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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<title>oprofile: convert oprofile from timer_hook to hrtimer</title>
<updated>2010-03-02T16:03:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Schwidefsky</name>
<email>schwidefsky@de.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2010-03-02T15:01:10+00:00</published>
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Oprofile is currently broken on systems running with NOHZ enabled.
A maximum of 1 tick is accounted via the timer_hook if a cpu sleeps
for a longer period of time. This does bad things to the percentages
in the profiler output. To solve this problem convert oprofile to
use a restarting hrtimer instead of the timer_hook.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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Oprofile is currently broken on systems running with NOHZ enabled.
A maximum of 1 tick is accounted via the timer_hook if a cpu sleeps
for a longer period of time. This does bad things to the percentages
in the profiler output. To solve this problem convert oprofile to
use a restarting hrtimer instead of the timer_hook.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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<title>oprofile: Rename variable timeout_jiffies and move to oprofile_files.c</title>
<updated>2009-07-20T14:43:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Richter</name>
<email>robert.richter@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-15T13:19:29+00:00</published>
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This patch renames timeout_jiffies into an oprofile specific name. The
macro MULTIPLEXING_TIMER_DEFAULT is changed too.

Also, since this variable is controlled using oprofilefs, its
definition is moved to oprofile_files.c.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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This patch renames timeout_jiffies into an oprofile specific name. The
macro MULTIPLEXING_TIMER_DEFAULT is changed too.

Also, since this variable is controlled using oprofilefs, its
definition is moved to oprofile_files.c.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>oprofile: Implement performance counter multiplexing</title>
<updated>2009-07-20T14:33:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Yeh</name>
<email>jason.yeh@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-08T11:49:38+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;jason.yeh@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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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 &lt;jason.yeh@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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<title>oprofile: rename kernel-wide identifiers</title>
<updated>2008-12-16T16:52:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Richter</name>
<email>robert.richter@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-16T15:19:54+00:00</published>
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This patch renames kernel-wide identifiers to something more oprofile
specific names.

Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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This patch renames kernel-wide identifiers to something more oprofile
specific names.

Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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<title>oprofile: fixing whitespaces in drivers/oprofile/*</title>
<updated>2008-10-16T13:01:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Richter</name>
<email>robert.richter@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-16T13:01:40+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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<title>oprofile: more whitespace fixes</title>
<updated>2008-10-15T18:55:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Richter</name>
<email>robert.richter@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-09-05T15:12:36+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Robert Richter &lt;robert.richter@amd.com&gt;
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<title>Revert "Oprofile Multiplexing Patch"</title>
<updated>2008-09-24T09:08:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Richter</name>
<email>robert.richter@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-09-24T09:08:52+00:00</published>
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Reverting commit 1a960b402a51d80abf54e3f8e4972374ffe5f22d for the main
branch. Multiplexing will be tracked on a separate feature branch.

Conflicts:

    arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c
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Reverting commit 1a960b402a51d80abf54e3f8e4972374ffe5f22d for the main
branch. Multiplexing will be tracked on a separate feature branch.

Conflicts:

    arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c
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