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2009-07-20oprofile: oprofile_set_timeout(), return with error for invalid argsRobert Richter
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>
2009-07-20oprofile: Implement performance counter multiplexingJason Yeh
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>
2009-01-22cpumask: modifiy oprofile initializationRobert Richter
Delta patch to f7df8ed164996cd2c6aca9674388be6ef78d8b37 for tip/cpus4096. Moved initialization to sync_start()/sync_stop(). No changes needed in buffer_sync.h and oprof.c anymore. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-11cpumask: convert misc driver functionsRusty Russell
Impact: use new cpumask API. Convert misc driver functions to use struct cpumask. To Do: - Convert iucv_buffer_cpumask to cpumask_var_t. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Acked-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: oprofile-list@lists.sf.net Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Cc: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com> Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
2008-12-16oprofile: rename kernel-wide identifiersRobert Richter
This patch renames kernel-wide identifiers to something more oprofile specific names. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-10-16oprofile: fixing whitespaces in drivers/oprofile/*Robert Richter
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-10-15oprofile: whitespace fixesRobert Richter
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2008-09-24Revert "Oprofile Multiplexing Patch"Robert Richter
Reverting commit 1a960b402a51d80abf54e3f8e4972374ffe5f22d for the main branch. Multiplexing will be tracked on a separate feature branch. Conflicts: arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c
2008-07-26Oprofile Multiplexing PatchJason Yeh
This patch introduces multiplexing support for the Oprofile kernel module. It basically adds a new function pointer in oprofile_operator allowing each architecture to supply its callback to switch between different sets of event when the timer expires. Userspace tools can modify the time slice through /dev/oprofile/time_slice. It also modifies the number of counters exposed to the userspace through /dev/oprofile. For example, the number of counters for AMD CPUs are changed to 32 and multiplexed in the sets of 4. Signed-off-by: Jason Yeh <jason.yeh@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: oprofile-list <oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-07-20[CELL] oprofile: add support to OProfile for profiling CELL BE SPUsBob Nelson
From: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com> This patch updates the existing arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_cell.c to add in the SPU profiling capabilities. In addition, a 'cell' subdirectory was added to arch/powerpc/oprofile to hold Cell-specific SPU profiling code. Exports spu_set_profile_private_kref and spu_get_profile_private_kref which are used by OProfile to store private profile information in spufs data structures. Also incorporated several fixes from other patches (rrn). Check pointer returned from kzalloc. Eliminated unnecessary cast. Better error handling and cleanup in the related area. 64-bit unsigned long parameter was being demoted to 32-bit unsigned int and eventually promoted back to unsigned long. Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Nelson <rrnelson@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-25[PATCH] oprofile: convert from semaphores to mutexesMarkus Armbruster
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!