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  1. 21 Sep, 2009 6 commits
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf: Tidy up after the big rename · 57c0c15b
      Ingo Molnar authored 
       - provide compatibility Kconfig entry for existing PERF_COUNTERS .config's

 - provide courtesy copy of old perf_counter.h, for user-space projects

 - small indentation fixups

 - fix up MAINTAINERS

 - fix small x86 printout fallout

 - fix up small PowerPC comment fallout (use 'counter' as in register)
Reviewed-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events · cdd6c482
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      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: default avatarStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarArjan 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>
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf_counter: Rename 'event' to event_id/hw_event · dfc65094
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      In preparation to the renames, to avoid a namespace clash.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf_counter: Rename list_entry -> group_entry, counter_list -> group_list · 65abc865
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      This is in preparation of the big rename, but also makes sense
in a standalone way: 'list_entry' is a bad name as we already
have a list_entry() in list.h.

Also, the 'counter list' is too vague, it doesnt tell us the
purpose of that list.

Clarify these names to show that it's all about the group
hiearchy.
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      65abc865
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/rename · ae82bfd6
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      Merge reason: pull in all the latest code before doing the rename.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      ae82bfd6
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      perf_counter, powerpc, sparc: Fix compilation after perf_counter_overflow() change · cd74c86b
      Paul Mackerras authored 
      Commit 5622f295 ("x86, perf_counter, bts: Optimize BTS overflow
handling") removed the regs field from struct perf_sample_data and
added a regs parameter to perf_counter_overflow().  This breaks the
build on powerpc (and Sparc) as reported by Sachin Sant:

  arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c: In function 'record_and_restart':
  arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c:1165: error: unknown field 'regs' specified in initializer

This adjusts arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c to correspond with the
new struct perf_sample_data and perf_counter_overflow().

[ v2: also fix Sparc, Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> ]
Reported-by: default avatarSachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <19127.8400.376239.586120@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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