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<title>perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface</title>
<updated>2011-07-01T09:06:35+00:00</updated>
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<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
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<published>2011-06-27T12:41:57+00:00</published>
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The nmi parameter indicated if we could do wakeups from the current
context, if not, we would set some state and self-IPI and let the
resulting interrupt do the wakeup.

For the various event classes:

  - hardware: nmi=0; PMI is in fact an NMI or we run irq_work_run from
    the PMI-tail (ARM etc.)
  - tracepoint: nmi=0; since tracepoint could be from NMI context.
  - software: nmi=[0,1]; some, like the schedule thing cannot
    perform wakeups, and hence need 0.

As one can see, there is very little nmi=1 usage, and the down-side of
not using it is that on some platforms some software events can have a
jiffy delay in wakeup (when arch_irq_work_raise isn't implemented).

The up-side however is that we can remove the nmi parameter and save a
bunch of conditionals in fast paths.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Michael Cree &lt;mcree@orcon.net.nz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu &lt;dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Eric B Munson &lt;emunson@mgebm.net&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-agjev8eu666tvknpb3iaj0fg@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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The nmi parameter indicated if we could do wakeups from the current
context, if not, we would set some state and self-IPI and let the
resulting interrupt do the wakeup.

For the various event classes:

  - hardware: nmi=0; PMI is in fact an NMI or we run irq_work_run from
    the PMI-tail (ARM etc.)
  - tracepoint: nmi=0; since tracepoint could be from NMI context.
  - software: nmi=[0,1]; some, like the schedule thing cannot
    perform wakeups, and hence need 0.

As one can see, there is very little nmi=1 usage, and the down-side of
not using it is that on some platforms some software events can have a
jiffy delay in wakeup (when arch_irq_work_raise isn't implemented).

The up-side however is that we can remove the nmi parameter and save a
bunch of conditionals in fast paths.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Michael Cree &lt;mcree@orcon.net.nz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu &lt;dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Eric B Munson &lt;emunson@mgebm.net&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-agjev8eu666tvknpb3iaj0fg@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf: Split up buffer handling from core code</title>
<updated>2011-06-09T10:57:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-19T17:55:04+00:00</published>
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And create the internal perf events header.

v2: Keep an internal inlined perf_output_copy()

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305827704-5607-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
[ v3: use clearer 'ring_buffer' and 'rb' naming ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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And create the internal perf events header.

v2: Keep an internal inlined perf_output_copy()

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305827704-5607-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
[ v3: use clearer 'ring_buffer' and 'rb' naming ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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