A race shouldn't happen since all workqueues or handlers are canceled
or flushed before the event buffer is freed. A warning is triggered
now if the buffer is freed too early.

Also, this patch adds some comments about event buffer protection,
reworks some code and adds code to clear buffer_pos during alloc and
free of the event buffer.

Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

Looking at the 2.6.31-rc9 code, it appears there is a race condition
in the event_buffer cleanup code path (shutdown). This could lead to
kernel panic as some CPUs may be operating on the event buffer AFTER
it has been freed. The attached patch solves the problem and makes
sure CPUs check if the buffer is not NULL before they access it as
some may have been spinning on the mutex while the buffer was being
freed.

The race may happen if the buffer is freed during pending reads. But
it is not clear why there are races in add_event_entry() since all
workqueues or handlers are canceled or flushed before the event buffer
is freed.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

Remove open-coded zalloc_cpumask_var() and zalloc_cpumask_var_node().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch moves the multiplexing switch counter from x86 code to
common oprofile statistic variables. Now the value will be available
and usable for all architectures. The initialization and
incrementation also moved to common code.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

This patch moves multiplexing code to a single section of code. This
reduces the use of #ifdefs especially within functions.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

oprofile_multiplexing_init() can be removed when moving the
initialization of oprofile_time_slice to oprofile_create_files().

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

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 <robert.richter@amd.com>

Return with -EINVAL for invalid parameters instead of setting the
default value in oprofile_set_timeout().

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

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 <jason.yeh@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>