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Ingo Molnar
cdd6c482c9 perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
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>
2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
Jens Axboe
825c9fb47a sparc: add basic support for 'perf'
This wires up the perf_counter_open() syscall so that basic
software support for perf is working.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-04 02:56:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3c3301083e Merge branch 'perf-counters-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-perf
* 'perf-counters-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-perf: (31 commits)
  perf_counter tools: Give perf top inherit option
  perf_counter tools: Fix vmlinux symbol generation breakage
  perf_counter: Detect debugfs location
  perf_counter: Add tracepoint support to perf list, perf stat
  perf symbol: C++ demangling
  perf: avoid structure size confusion by using a fixed size
  perf_counter: Fix throttle/unthrottle event logging
  perf_counter: Improve perf stat and perf record option parsing
  perf_counter: PERF_SAMPLE_ID and inherited counters
  perf_counter: Plug more stack leaks
  perf: Fix stack data leak
  perf_counter: Remove unused variables
  perf_counter: Make call graph option consistent
  perf_counter: Add perf record option to log addresses
  perf_counter: Log vfork as a fork event
  perf_counter: Synthesize VDSO mmap event
  perf_counter: Make sure we dont leak kernel memory to userspace
  perf_counter tools: Fix index boundary check
  perf_counter: Fix the tracepoint channel to perfcounters
  perf_counter, x86: Extend perf_counter Pentium M support
  ...
2009-07-22 11:41:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
85be928c41 Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (50 commits)
  perf report: Add "Fractal" mode output - support callchains with relative overhead rate
  perf_counter tools: callchains: Manage the cumul hits on the fly
  perf report: Change default callchain parameters
  perf report: Use a modifiable string for default callchain options
  perf report: Warn on callchain output request from non-callchain file
  x86: atomic64: Inline atomic64_read() again
  x86: atomic64: Clean up atomic64_sub_and_test() and atomic64_add_negative()
  x86: atomic64: Improve atomic64_xchg()
  x86: atomic64: Export APIs to modules
  x86: atomic64: Improve atomic64_read()
  x86: atomic64: Code atomic(64)_read and atomic(64)_set in C not CPP
  x86: atomic64: Fix unclean type use in atomic64_xchg()
  x86: atomic64: Make atomic_read() type-safe
  x86: atomic64: Reduce size of functions
  x86: atomic64: Improve atomic64_add_return()
  x86: atomic64: Improve cmpxchg8b()
  x86: atomic64: Improve atomic64_read()
  x86: atomic64: Move the 32-bit atomic64_t implementation to a .c file
  x86: atomic64: The atomic64_t data type should be 8 bytes aligned on 32-bit too
  perf report: Annotate variable initialization
  ...
2009-07-10 14:25:03 -07:00
Vince Weaver
11d1578f94 perf_counter: Add P6 PMU support
Add basic P6 PMU support. The P6 uses the EVNTSEL0 EN bit to
enable/disable both its counters. We use this for the
global enable/disable, and clear all config bits (except EN)
to disable individual counters.

Actual ia32 hardware doesn't support lfence, so use a locked
op without side-effect to implement a full barrier.

perf stat and perf record seem to function correctly.

[a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: cleanups and complete the enable/disable code]

Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0907081718450.2715@pianoman.cluster.toy>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-10 10:28:26 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
de481ba925 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6: (27 commits)
  parisc: use generic atomic64 on 32-bit
  parisc: superio: fix build breakage
  parisc: Fix PCI resource allocation on non-PAT SBA machines
  parisc: perf: wire up sys_perf_counter_open
  parisc: add task_pt_regs macro
  parisc: wire sys_perf_counter_open to sys_ni_syscall
  parisc: inventory.c, fix bloated stack frame
  parisc: processor.c, fix bloated stack frame
  parisc: fix compile warning in mm/init.c
  parisc: remove dead code from sys_parisc32.c
  parisc: wire up rt_tgsigqueueinfo
  parisc: ensure broadcast tlb purge runs single threaded
  parisc: fix "delay!" timer handling
  parisc: fix mismatched parenthesis in memcpy.c
  parisc: Fix gcc 4.4 warning in lba_pci.c
  parisc: add parameter to read_cr16()
  parisc: decode_exc.c should include kernel.h
  parisc: remove obsolete hw_interrupt_type
  parisc: fix irq compile bugs in arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
  parisc: advertise PCI devs after "assign_resources"
  ...

Manually fixed up trivial conflicts in tools/perf/perf.h due to addition
of SH vs HPPA perf-counter support.
2009-07-04 10:35:12 -07:00
Kyle McMartin
2d4618dce6 parisc: perf: wire up sys_perf_counter_open
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
2009-07-03 03:34:12 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
5a475ce469 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
  sh: LCDC dcache flush for deferred io
  sh: Fix compiler error and include the definition of IS_ERR_VALUE
  sh: re-add LCDC fbdev support to the Migo-R defconfig
  sh: fix se7724 ceu names
  sh: ms7724se: Enable sh_eth in defconfig.
  arch/sh/boards/mach-se/7206/io.c: Remove unnecessary semicolons
  sh: ms7724se: Add sh_eth support
  nommu: provide follow_pfn().
  sh: Kill off unused DEBUG_BOOTMEM symbol.
  perf_counter tools: add cpu_relax()/rmb() definitions for sh.
  sh64: Hook up page fault events for software perf counters.
  sh: Hook up page fault events for software perf counters.
  sh: make set_perf_counter_pending() static inline.
  clocksource: sh_tmu: Make undefined TCOR behaviour less undefined.
2009-07-01 11:46:30 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
f37a291c52 perf_counter tools: Add more warnings and fix/annotate them
Enable -Wextra. This found a few real bugs plus a number
of signed/unsigned type mismatches/uncleanlinesses. It
also required a few annotations

All things considered it was still worth it so lets try with
this enabled for now.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 12:49:48 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
55bcab4695 Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (47 commits)
  perf report: Add --symbols parameter
  perf report: Add --comms parameter
  perf report: Add --dsos parameter
  perf_counter tools: Adjust only prelinked symbol's addresses
  perf_counter: Provide a way to enable counters on exec
  perf_counter tools: Reduce perf stat measurement overhead/skew
  perf stat: Use percentages for scaling output
  perf_counter, x86: Update x86_pmu after WARN()
  perf stat: Micro-optimize the code: memcpy is only required if no event is selected and !null_run
  perf stat: Improve output
  perf stat: Fix multi-run stats
  perf stat: Add -n/--null option to run without counters
  perf_counter tools: Remove dead code
  perf_counter: Complete counter swap
  perf report: Print sorted callchains per histogram entries
  perf_counter tools: Prepare a small callchain framework
  perf record: Fix unhandled io return value
  perf_counter tools: Add alias for 'l1d' and 'l1i'
  perf-report: Add bare minimum PERF_EVENT_READ parsing
  perf-report: Add modes for inherited stats and no-samples
  ...
2009-06-30 19:02:59 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
8cb76d99d7 perf_counter tools: Prepare a small callchain framework
We plan to display the callchains depending on some user-configurable
parameters.

To gather the callchains stats from the recorded stream in a fast way,
this patch introduces an ad hoc radix tree adapted for callchains and also
a rbtree to sort these callchains once we have gathered every events
from the stream.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246026481-8314-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-26 16:47:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
7c6a1c65bb perf_counter tools: Rework the file format
Create a structured file format that includes the full
perf_counter_attr and all its relevant counter IDs so that
the reporting program has full information.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25 21:39:04 +02:00
Paul Mundt
febe834535 perf_counter tools: add cpu_relax()/rmb() definitions for sh.
Simple cpu_relax()/rmb() stubs that perf needs, which were inadvertently
omitted from the sh HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS patch.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-06-25 14:41:57 +09:00
Martin Schwidefsky
12310e9c1b [S390] Enable tick based perf_counter on s390.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2009-06-22 12:08:24 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
9cffa8d533 perf_counter tools: Define and use our own u64, s64 etc. definitions
On 64-bit powerpc, __u64 is defined to be unsigned long rather than
unsigned long long.  This causes compiler warnings every time we
print a __u64 value with %Lx.

Rather than changing __u64, we define our own u64 to be unsigned long
long on all architectures, and similarly s64 as signed long long.
For consistency we also define u32, s32, u16, s16, u8 and s8.  These
definitions are put in a new header, types.h, because these definitions
are needed in util/string.h and util/symbol.h.

The main change here is the mechanical change of __[us]{64,32,16,8}
to remove the "__".  The other changes are:

* Create types.h
* Include types.h in perf.h, util/string.h and util/symbol.h
* Add types.h to the LIB_H definition in Makefile
* Added (u64) casts in process_overflow_event() and print_sym_table()
  to kill two remaining warnings.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
LKML-Reference: <19003.33494.495844.956580@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-19 18:25:47 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f5970550d5 perf_counter tools: Add a data file header
Add a data file header so we can transfer data between record and report.

LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-19 13:42:36 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
974802eaa1 perf_counter: Add forward/backward attribute ABI compatibility
Provide for means of extending the perf_counter_attr in a 'natural' way.

We allow growing the structure by appending fields at the end by specifying
the full structure size inside it.

When a new kernel sees a smaller (old) structure, it will 0 pad the tail.
When an old kernel sees a larger (new) structure, it will verify the tail
consists of 0s, otherwise fail.

If we fail due to a size-mismatch, we return -E2BIG and write the kernel's
native attribe size back into the provided structure.

Furthermore, add some attribute verification, so that we'll fail counter
creation when unknown bits are present (PERF_SAMPLE, PERF_FORMAT, or in
the __reserved fields).

(This ABI detail is introduced while keeping the existing syscall ABI.)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-12 14:28:52 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
864709302a perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/
Several people have suggested that 'perf' has become a full-fledged
tool that should be moved out of Documentation/. Move it to the
(new) tools/ directory.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00