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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: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Extract and move the oprofile hwsampler data structures and interfaces to
the cpu_mf.h header file which contains common interface definitions
for the various CPU-measurement facilities. This change is necessary for
a new perf PMU.
Few interface names have been revised to fit to the latest CPU-measurement
facilities documentation. Also declare the data structures as __packed and
correct checkpatch findings.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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There is a misleading naming of the program parameter fields, so
correct them according to their names as outlined in
"The Load-Program-Parameter and the CPU-measurement Facilities"
(SA23-2260-03).
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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oprofile_min_interval and oprofile_max_interval are unsigned, checking
for negative values doesn't work. Change hwsampler_query_min_interval
and hwsampler_query_max_interval to return an unsigned long and
check for a zero value instead.
Reported-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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This adds support for hardware based sampling on System z processors
(models z10 and up).
System z's hardware sampling is described in detail in:
SA23-2260-01 "The Load-Program-Parameter and CPU-Measurement Facilities"
The patch introduces
- support for System z's hardware sampler in OProfile's kernel module
- it adds functions that control all hardware sampling related
operations as:
- checking if hardware sampling feature is available, i.e.: on
System z models z10 and up, in LPAR mode only, and authorised
during LPAR activation
- allocating memory for the hardware sampling feature
- starting/stopping hardware sampling
All functions required to start and stop hardware sampling have to be
invoked by the oprofile kernel module as provided by the other patches
of this patch set.
In case hardware based sampling cannot be setup standard timer based
sampling is used by OProfile.
Applied with following changes:
* enable compilation in Makefile
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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