Impact: remove dead code
nr_inherited was not maintained correctly (not decremented) - and also
not used - remove it.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Allow lowlevel ->enable() op to return an error if a counter can not be
added. This can be used to handle counter constraints.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change counter inheritance from a 'push' to a 'pull' model: instead of
child tasks pushing their final counts to the parent, reuse the wait4
infrastructure to pull counters as child tasks are exit-processed,
much like how cutime/cstime is collected.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Enumerate fixed-mode PMCs based on CPUID, and feed that into the
perfcounter code.
Does not use fixed-mode PMCs yet.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: refactor the x86 code for fixed-mode PMCs
Extend the data structures and rename the existing facilities
to allow for a 'generic' versus 'fixed' counter distinction.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: rename include file
We'll be providing an asm/perf_counter.h to the generic perfcounter code,
so use the already existing x86 file for this purpose and rename it.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: schedule in groups atomically
If there are multiple groups in a task, make sure they are scheduled
in and out atomically.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, avoid sparse warnings, reduce kernel size a bit
Fixes these sparse warnings:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c:44:11: warning: symbol 'intel_perfmon_event_map' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c:54:11: warning: symbol 'max_intel_perfmon_events' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: implement default-off counters
Make sure that counters that are created with counter.hw_event.disabled=1,
get created in disabled state.
They can be enabled via:
prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_COUNTERS_ENABLE);
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Pavel Machek pointed out that performance counters should be flushed
when crossing protection domains on setuid execution.
Reported-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If counters are exiting via do_exit() not via filp close, then
the CPU context needs to be released - otherwise future percpu
counter creations might fail.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add new feature, new sw counter
Add a counter that counts the number of pagefaults a task
is experiencing.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add new feature, new sw counter
Add a counter that counts the number of cross-CPU migrations a
task is suffering.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add new feature, new sw counter
Add a counter that counts the number of context-switches a task
is doing.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: implement new performance feature
Counter inheritance can be used to run performance counters in a workload,
transparently - and pipe back the counter results to the parent counter.
Inheritance for performance counters works the following way: when creating
a counter it can be marked with the .inherit=1 flag. Such counters are then
'inherited' by all child tasks (be they fork()-ed or clone()-ed). These
counters get inherited through exec() boundaries as well (except through
setuid boundaries).
The counter values get added back to the parent counter(s) when the child
task(s) exit - much like stime/utime statistics are gathered. So inherited
counters are ideal to gather summary statistics about an application's
behavior via shell commands, without having to modify that application.
The timec.c command utilizes counter inheritance:
http://redhat.com/~mingo/perfcounters/timec.c
Sample output:
$ ./timec -e 1 -e 3 -e 5 ls -lR /usr/include/ >/dev/null
Performance counter stats for 'ls':
163516953 instructions
2295 cache-misses
2855182 branch-misses
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: restructure code
Change counter math from absolute values to clear delta logic.
We try to extract elapsed deltas from the raw hw counter - and put
that into the generic counter.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: new API
Implement the atomic64_t APIs on 32-bit as well. Will be used by
the performance counters code.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
For the console, there is a 1:1 mapping of glyphs which cannot be found
in the current font. This seems to be meant as a kind of 'emergency
fallback' for fonts without unicode mapping which otherwise would
display nothing readable on the screen.
At the moment it affects all chars for which no substitution character
is defined. In particular this means that for all chars (>= 128) where
there is no iso88591-1/unicode character (e.g. control character area)
you'll get the very strange 1:1 mapping of the (cp437) graphics card
glyphs.
I'm pretty sure that the 1:1 mapping should only affect strict ASCII
code characters, i.e. chars < 128.
The patch limits the mapping as it probably was meant anyway.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Brueckl <ib@wupperonline.de>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Egmont Koblinger <egmont@uhulinux.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is a major bug in the cp437 to unicode translation table. Char
0x7c is mapped to U+00a5 which is the Yen sign and wrong. The right
mapping is U+00a6 (broken bar).
Furthermore, a mapping for U+00b4 (a widely used character) is missing
even though easily possible.
The patch fixes these, as well as it provides a few other useful
mappings.
The changes are as follows:
0x0f (enhancement) enables a sort of currency symbol
0x27 (bug) enables a sort of acute accent which is a widely used character
0x44 (enhancement) enables a sort of icelandic capital letter eth
0x7c (major bug) corrects mapping
0xeb (enhancement) enables a sort of icelandic small letter eth
0xee (enhancement) enables a sort of math 'element of'
Signed-off-by: Ingo Brueckl <ib@wupperonline.de>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
dma_free_noncoherent() and dma_free_coherent() are missing calls to
plat_unmap_dma_mem(). This patch adds them.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The header path in the help text for the RUNTIME_DEBUG config option is
obsolete and needs to be updated to match the new location of
architecture-specific header files. While at it, fix the spelling mistake.
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
For MIPS R2, use the EI and DI instructions to enable and disable
interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Tomaso Paoletti <tpaoletti@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The test-unit-ready portion of this patch was causing boots to fail on
my test machine (as in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/5/161). With this
patch in place, the system is booting reliably.
Mike Anderson found the same problem in the hp_hw_start_stop code,
and I applied the same solution in cdrom_read_cdda_bpc.
Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Cc: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Impact: cleanup
Introduce a proper enum for the 3 states of a counter:
PERF_COUNTER_STATE_OFF = -1
PERF_COUNTER_STATE_INACTIVE = 0
PERF_COUNTER_STATE_ACTIVE = 1
and rename counter->active to counter->state and propagate the
changes everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add a way for self-monitoring tasks to disable/enable counters summarily,
via a prctl:
PR_TASK_PERF_COUNTERS_DISABLE 31
PR_TASK_PERF_COUNTERS_ENABLE 32
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add new perf-counter type
The 'task clock' counter counts the amount of time a task is executing,
in nanoseconds. It stops ticking when a task is scheduled out either due
to it blocking, sleeping or it being preempted.
This counter type is a Linux kernel based abstraction, it is available
even if the hardware does not support native hardware performance counters.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Rename them to better match up the usual IRQ disable/enable APIs:
hw_perf_disable_all() => hw_perf_save_disable()
hw_perf_restore_ctrl() => hw_perf_restore()
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add new perf-counter type
The 'CPU clock' counter counts the amount of CPU clock time that is
elapsing, in nanoseconds. (regardless of how much of it the task is
spending on a CPU executing)
This counter type is a Linux kernel based abstraction, it is available
even if the hardware does not support native hardware performance counters.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: restructure code, introduce hw_ops driver abstraction
Introduce this abstraction to handle counter details:
struct hw_perf_counter_ops {
void (*hw_perf_counter_enable) (struct perf_counter *counter);
void (*hw_perf_counter_disable) (struct perf_counter *counter);
void (*hw_perf_counter_read) (struct perf_counter *counter);
};
This will be useful to support assymetric hw details, and it will also
be useful to implement "software counters". (Counters that count kernel
managed sw events such as pagefaults, context-switches, wall-clock time
or task-local time.)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: bugfix
Check that a group does not span outside the context of a CPU or a task.
Also, do not allow deep recursive hierarchies.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar