- Feb 15, 2011
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Robert Richter authored
This patch is a rework of the hwsampler oprofile implementation that has been applied recently. Now there are less non-architectural changes. The only changes are: * introduction of oprofile_add_ext_hw_sample(), and * removal of section attributes of oprofile_timer_init/_exit(). To setup hwsampler for oprofile we need to modify start()/stop() callbacks and additional hwsampler control files in oprofilefs. We do not reinitialize the timer or hwsampler mode by restarting calling init/exit() anymore, instead hwsampler_running is used to switch the mode directly in oprofile_hwsampler_start/_stop(). For locking reasons there is also hwsampler_file that reflects the value in oprofilefs. The overall diffstat of the oprofile s390 hwsampler implemenation shows the low impact to non-architectural code: arch/Kconfig | 3 + arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 + arch/s390/oprofile/Makefile | 2 +- arch/s390/oprofile/hwsampler.c | 1256 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/s390/oprofile/hwsampler.h | 113 +++ arch/s390/oprofile/hwsampler_files.c | 162 +++++ arch/s390/oprofile/init.c | 6 +- drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.c | 24 +- drivers/oprofile/timer_int.c | 4 +- include/linux/oprofile.h | 7 + 10 files changed, 1567 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) Acked-by:
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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Heinz Graalfs authored
OProfile is enhanced to export all files for controlling System z's hardware sampling, and to invoke hwsampler exported functions to initialize and use System z's hardware sampling. The patch invokes hwsampler_setup() during oprofile init and exports following hwsampler files under oprofilefs if hwsampler's setup succeeded: A new directory for hardware sampling based files /dev/oprofile/hwsampling/ The userland daemon must explicitly write to the following files to disable (or enable) hardware based sampling /dev/oprofile/hwsampling/hwsampler to modify the actual sampling rate /dev/oprofile/hwsampling/hw_interval to modify the amount of sampling memory (measured in 4K pages) /dev/oprofile/hwsampling/hw_sdbt_blocks The following files are read only and show the possible minimum sampling rate /dev/oprofile/hwsampling/hw_min_interval the possible maximum sampling rate /dev/oprofile/hwsampling/hw_max_interval The patch splits the oprofile_timer_[init/exit] function so that it can be also called through user context (oprofilefs) to avoid kernel oops. Applied with following changes: * whitespace changes in Makefile and timer_int.c Signed-off-by:
Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Maran Pakkirisamy <maranp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Heinz Graalfs <graalfs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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- Oct 12, 2010
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Robert Richter authored
Oprofile counters are setup when profiling is disabled. Thus, writing to oprofilefs has no immediate effect. Changes are updated only after oprofile is reenabled. To keep userland and kernel states synchronized, we now allow configuration of oprofile only if profiling is disabled. In this case it checks if the profiler is running and then disables write access to oprofilefs by returning -EBUSY. The change should be backward compatible with current oprofile userland daemon. Acked-by:
Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com> Signed-off-by:
Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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- Mar 02, 2010
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Martin Schwidefsky authored
Oprofile is currently broken on systems running with NOHZ enabled. A maximum of 1 tick is accounted via the timer_hook if a cpu sleeps for a longer period of time. This does bad things to the percentages in the profiler output. To solve this problem convert oprofile to use a restarting hrtimer instead of the timer_hook. Signed-off-by:
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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- Jul 20, 2009
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Robert Richter authored
This patch renames timeout_jiffies into an oprofile specific name. The macro MULTIPLEXING_TIMER_DEFAULT is changed too. Also, since this variable is controlled using oprofilefs, its definition is moved to oprofile_files.c. Signed-off-by:
Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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Jason Yeh authored
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>
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- Dec 16, 2008
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Robert Richter authored
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>
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- Oct 16, 2008
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Robert Richter authored
Signed-off-by:
Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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- Oct 15, 2008
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Robert Richter authored
Signed-off-by:
Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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- Sep 24, 2008
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Robert Richter authored
Reverting commit 1a960b40 for the main branch. Multiplexing will be tracked on a separate feature branch. Conflicts: arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c
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- Jul 26, 2008
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Jason Yeh authored
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>
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- Apr 16, 2005
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Linus Torvalds authored
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!
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