kernel.git/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c, branch linux-2.6.37.y

ARM: 6469/1: perf-events: squash compiler warning

2010-11-07T16:12:38Z

armv7_pmnc_counter_has_overflowed can return uninitialised data if an invalid counter is specified. This patch fixes the code to return 0 in this case, which squashes the compiler warning from GCC 4.5. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Russell King

irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks

2010-10-18T17:58:50Z

Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers. Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also benefit. The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately. Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in processing the work. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Kyle McMartin Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky [ various fixes ] Signed-off-by: Huang Ying LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge remote branch 'tip/perf/core' into oprofile/core

2010-10-15T10:45:00Z

Conflicts: arch/arm/oprofile/common.c kernel/perf_event.c

perf, ARM: Fix sysfs bits removal build failure

2010-10-14T06:09:42Z

Fix this linux-next build failure that Stephen reported: arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c: In function 'armpmu_event_init': arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c:543: error: request for member 'num_events' in something not a structure or union Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: paulus LKML-Reference: <20101014164925.4fa16b75.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'oprofile/urgent' (early part) into oprofile/perf

2010-10-11T17:26:50Z

perf: Add helper function to return number of counters

2010-10-11T08:38:13Z

The number of counters for the registered pmu is needed in a few places so provide a helper function that returns this number. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming Tested-by: Will Deacon Acked-by: Paul Mundt Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Robert Richter

Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core

2010-09-15T08:27:31Z

perf: Remove the sysfs bits

2010-09-09T18:46:31Z

Neither the overcommit nor the reservation sysfs parameter were actually working, remove them as they'll only get in the way. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: paulus LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Rework the PMU methods

2010-09-09T18:46:30Z

Replace pmu::{enable,disable,start,stop,unthrottle} with pmu::{add,del,start,stop}, all of which take a flags argument. The new interface extends the capability to stop a counter while keeping it scheduled on the PMU. We replace the throttled state with the generic stopped state. This also allows us to efficiently stop/start counters over certain code paths (like IRQ handlers). It also allows scheduling a counter without it starting, allowing for a generic frozen state (useful for rotating stopped counters). The stopped state is implemented in two different ways, depending on how the architecture implemented the throttled state: 1) We disable the counter: a) the pmu has per-counter enable bits, we flip that b) we program a NOP event, preserving the counter state 2) We store the counter state and ignore all read/overflow events Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: paulus Cc: stephane eranian Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Lin Ming Cc: Yanmin Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu Cc: David Miller Cc: Michael Cree LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Per PMU disable

2010-09-09T18:46:29Z

Changes perf_disable() into perf_pmu_disable(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: paulus Cc: stephane eranian Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Lin Ming Cc: Yanmin Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu Cc: David Miller Cc: Michael Cree LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar