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: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan 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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The MMU version of unistd.h can be use on non-MMU platrorms as well.
Without a single file "make headers_install" is broken for m68k
(since each of the sub-varients of unistd.h are not installed).
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Merge header files for m68k and m68knommu to the single location:
arch/m68k/include/asm
The majority of this patch was the result of the
script that is included in the changelog below.
The script was originally written by Arnd Bergman and
exten by me to cover a few more files.
When the header files differed the script uses the following:
The original m68k file is named <file>_mm.h [mm for memory manager]
The m68knommu file is named <file>_no.h [no for no memory manager]
The files uses the following include guard:
This include gaurd works as the m68knommu toolchain set
the __uClinux__ symbol - so this should work in userspace too.
Merging the header files for m68k and m68knommu exposes the
(unexpected?) ABI differences thus it is easier to actually
identify these and thus to fix them.
The commit has been build tested with both a m68k and
a m68knommu toolchain - with success.
The commit has also been tested with "make headers_check"
and this patch fixes make headers_check for m68knommu.
The script used:
TARGET=arch/m68k/include/asm
SOURCE=arch/m68knommu/include/asm
INCLUDE="cachectl.h errno.h fcntl.h hwtest.h ioctls.h ipcbuf.h \
linkage.h math-emu.h md.h mman.h movs.h msgbuf.h openprom.h \
oplib.h poll.h posix_types.h resource.h rtc.h sembuf.h shmbuf.h \
shm.h shmparam.h socket.h sockios.h spinlock.h statfs.h stat.h \
termbits.h termios.h tlb.h types.h user.h"
EQUAL="auxvec.h cputime.h device.h emergency-restart.h futex.h \
ioctl.h irq_regs.h kdebug.h local.h mutex.h percpu.h \
sections.h topology.h"
NOMUUFILES="anchor.h bootstd.h coldfire.h commproc.h dbg.h \
elia.h flat.h m5206sim.h m520xsim.h m523xsim.h m5249sim.h \
m5272sim.h m527xsim.h m528xsim.h m5307sim.h m532xsim.h \
m5407sim.h m68360_enet.h m68360.h m68360_pram.h m68360_quicc.h \
m68360_regs.h MC68328.h MC68332.h MC68EZ328.h MC68VZ328.h \
mcfcache.h mcfdma.h mcfmbus.h mcfne.h mcfpci.h mcfpit.h \
mcfsim.h mcfsmc.h mcftimer.h mcfuart.h mcfwdebug.h \
nettel.h quicc_simple.h smp.h"
FILES="atomic.h bitops.h bootinfo.h bug.h bugs.h byteorder.h cache.h \
cacheflush.h checksum.h current.h delay.h div64.h \
dma-mapping.h dma.h elf.h entry.h fb.h fpu.h hardirq.h hw_irq.h io.h \
irq.h kmap_types.h machdep.h mc146818rtc.h mmu.h mmu_context.h \
module.h page.h page_offset.h param.h pci.h pgalloc.h \
pgtable.h processor.h ptrace.h scatterlist.h segment.h \
setup.h sigcontext.h siginfo.h signal.h string.h system.h swab.h \
thread_info.h timex.h tlbflush.h traps.h uaccess.h ucontext.h \
unaligned.h unistd.h"
mergefile() {
BASE=${1%.h}
git mv ${SOURCE}/$1 ${TARGET}/${BASE}_no.h
git mv ${TARGET}/$1 ${TARGET}/${BASE}_mm.h
cat << EOF > ${TARGET}/$1
EOF
git add ${TARGET}/$1
}
set -e
mkdir -p ${TARGET}
git mv include/asm-m68k/* ${TARGET}
rmdir include/asm-m68k
git rm ${SOURCE}/Kbuild
for F in $INCLUDE $EQUAL; do
git rm ${SOURCE}/$F
done
for F in $NOMUUFILES; do
git mv ${SOURCE}/$F ${TARGET}/$F
done
for F in $FILES ; do
mergefile $F
done
rmdir arch/m68knommu/include/asm
rmdir arch/m68knommu/include
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
