Commit 93dd49d0 authored by Heiko Carstens's avatar Heiko Carstens Committed by Martin Schwidefsky

s390/oprofile: remove hardware sampler support

Remove hardware sampler support from oprofile module.

The oprofile user space utilty has been switched to use the kernel
perf interface, for which we also provide hardware sampling support.

In addition the hardware sampling support is also slightly broken: it
supports only 16 bits for the pid and therefore would generate wrong
results on machines which have a pid >64k.

Also the pt_regs structure which was passed to oprofile common code
cannot necessarily be used to generate sane backtraces, since the
task(s) in question may run while the samples are fed to oprofile.
So the result would be more or less random.

However given that the only user space tools switched to the perf
interface already four years ago the hardware sampler code seems to be
unused code, and therefore it should be reasonable to remove it.

The timer based oprofile support continues to work.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAndreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAndreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRobert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
parent 11a7752e
...@@ -2788,8 +2788,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. ...@@ -2788,8 +2788,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
timer mode (see also oprofile.timer timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
for generic hr timer mode) for generic hr timer mode)
[s390] Force legacy basic mode sampling
(report cpu_type "timer")
oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the oops=panic Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
process, but there is a small probability of process, but there is a small probability of
......
...@@ -7,4 +7,3 @@ DRIVER_OBJS = $(addprefix ../../../drivers/oprofile/, \ ...@@ -7,4 +7,3 @@ DRIVER_OBJS = $(addprefix ../../../drivers/oprofile/, \
timer_int.o ) timer_int.o )
oprofile-y := $(DRIVER_OBJS) init.o oprofile-y := $(DRIVER_OBJS) init.o
oprofile-y += hwsampler.o
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/*
* CPUMF HW sampler functions and internal structures
*
* Copyright IBM Corp. 2010
* Author(s): Heinz Graalfs <graalfs@de.ibm.com>
*/
#ifndef HWSAMPLER_H_
#define HWSAMPLER_H_
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#include <asm/cpu_mf.h>
struct hws_ssctl_request_block /* SET SAMPLING CONTROLS req block */
{ /* bytes 0 - 7 Bit(s) */
unsigned int s:1; /* 0: maximum buffer indicator */
unsigned int h:1; /* 1: part. level reserved for VM use*/
unsigned long b2_53:52; /* 2-53: zeros */
unsigned int es:1; /* 54: sampling enable control */
unsigned int b55_61:7; /* 55-61: - zeros */
unsigned int cs:1; /* 62: sampling activation control */
unsigned int b63:1; /* 63: zero */
unsigned long interval; /* 8-15: sampling interval */
unsigned long tear; /* 16-23: TEAR contents */
unsigned long dear; /* 24-31: DEAR contents */
/* 32-63: */
unsigned long rsvrd1; /* reserved */
unsigned long rsvrd2; /* reserved */
unsigned long rsvrd3; /* reserved */
unsigned long rsvrd4; /* reserved */
};
struct hws_cpu_buffer {
unsigned long first_sdbt; /* @ of 1st SDB-Table for this CP*/
unsigned long worker_entry;
unsigned long sample_overflow; /* taken from SDB ... */
struct hws_qsi_info_block qsi;
struct hws_ssctl_request_block ssctl;
struct work_struct worker;
atomic_t ext_params;
unsigned long req_alert;
unsigned long loss_of_sample_data;
unsigned long invalid_entry_address;
unsigned long incorrect_sdbt_entry;
unsigned long sample_auth_change_alert;
unsigned int finish:1;
unsigned int oom:1;
unsigned int stop_mode:1;
};
int hwsampler_setup(void);
int hwsampler_shutdown(void);
int hwsampler_allocate(unsigned long sdbt, unsigned long sdb);
int hwsampler_deallocate(void);
unsigned long hwsampler_query_min_interval(void);
unsigned long hwsampler_query_max_interval(void);
int hwsampler_start_all(unsigned long interval);
int hwsampler_stop_all(void);
int hwsampler_deactivate(unsigned int cpu);
int hwsampler_activate(unsigned int cpu);
unsigned long hwsampler_get_sample_overflow_count(unsigned int cpu);
#endif /*HWSAMPLER_H_*/
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/*
* Copyright IBM Corp. 2011
* Author(s): Andreas Krebbel (krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com)
*
* @remark Copyright 2011 OProfile authors
*/
#ifndef OP_COUNTER_H
#define OP_COUNTER_H
struct op_counter_config {
/* `enabled' maps to the hwsampler_file variable. */
/* `count' maps to the oprofile_hw_interval variable. */
/* `event' and `unit_mask' are unused. */
unsigned long kernel;
unsigned long user;
};
extern struct op_counter_config counter_config;
#endif /* OP_COUNTER_H */
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