The problem was we were incorrectly calculating objdump
addresses for sym->start and sym->end, look:

For simple ET_DYN type DSO (*.so) with one function, objdump -dS
output is something like this:

    000004ac <my_strlen>:
    int my_strlen(const char *s)
     4ac:   55                      push   %ebp
     4ad:   89 e5                   mov    %esp,%ebp
     4af:   83 ec 10                sub    $0x10,%esp
    {

i.e. we have relative-to-dso-mapping IPs (=RIP) there.

For ET_EXEC type and probably for prelinked libs as well (sorry
can't test - I don't use prelink) objdump outputs absolute IPs,
e.g.

    08048604 <zz_strlen>:
    extern "C"
    int zz_strlen(const char *s)
     8048604:       55                      push   %ebp
     8048605:       89 e5                   mov    %esp,%ebp
     8048607:       83 ec 10                sub    $0x10,%esp
    {

So, if sym->start is always relative to dso mapping(*), we'll
have to unmap it for ET_EXEC like cases, and leave as is for
ET_DYN cases.

(*) and it is - we've explicitely made it relative. Look for
    adjust_symbols handling in dso__load_sym()

Previously we were always unmapping sym->start and for ET_DYN
dsos resulting addresses were wrong, and so objdump output was
empty.

The end result was that perf annotate output for symbols from
non-prelinked *.so had always 0.00% percents only, which is
wrong.

To fix it, let's introduce a helper for converting rip to
objdump address, and also let's document what map_ip() and
unmap_ip() do -- I had to study sources for several hours to
understand it.
Signed-off-by: NKirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-8-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Not to pollute too much 'perf annotate' debugging sessions.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-7-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We want to stream events as fast as possible to perf.data, and
also in the future we want to have splice working, when no
interception will be possible.

Using build_id__mark_dso_hit_ops to create the list of DSOs that
back MMAPs we also optimize disk usage in the build-id cache by
only caching DSOs that had hits.
Suggested-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Because 'perf record' will have to find the build-ids in after
we stop recording, so as to reduce even more the impact in the
workload while we do the measurement.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

With the recent modifications done to untie the session and
symbol layers, 'perf probe' now can use just the symbols layer.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We can check using strcmp, most DSOs don't start with '[' so the
test is cheap enough and we had to test it there anyway since
when reading perf.data files we weren't calling the routine that
created this global variable and thus weren't setting it as
"loaded", which was causing a bogus:

  Failed to open [vdso], continuing without symbols

Message as the first line of 'perf report'.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

While debugging a problem reported by Pekka Enberg by printing
the IP and all the maps for a thread when we don't find a map
for an IP I noticed that dso__load_sym needs to fixup these
extra maps it creates to hold symbols in different ELF sections
than the main kernel one.

Now we're back showing things like:

[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report | grep vsyscall
     0.02%             mutt  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn  [.] vread_hpet
     0.01%            named  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn  [.] vread_hpet
     0.01%   NetworkManager  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn  [.] vread_hpet
     0.01%         gconfd-2  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_0   [.] vgettimeofday
     0.01%  hald-addon-rfki  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn  [.] vread_hpet
     0.00%      dbus-daemon  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn  [.] vread_hpet
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

I noticed while writing the first test in 'perf regtest' that to
just test the symbol handling routines one needs to create a
perf session, that is a layer centered on a perf.data file,
events, etc, so I untied these layers.

This reduces the complexity for the users as the number of
parameters to most of the symbols and session APIs now was
reduced while not adding more state to all the map instances by
only having data that is needed to split the kernel (kallsyms
and ELF symtab sections) maps and do vmlinux relocation on the
main kernel map.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Open perf data file with O_LARGEFILE flag since its size is
easily larger that 2G.

For example:

 # rm -rf perf.data
 # ./perf kmem record sleep 300

 [ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 3142.147 MB perf.data
 (~137282513 samples) ]

 # ll -h perf.data
 -rw------- 1 root root 3.1G .....
Signed-off-by: NXiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B68F32A.9040203@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Fix up a few small stylistic details:

 - use consistent vertical spacing/alignment
 - remove line80 artifacts
 - group some global variables better
 - remove dead code

Plus rename 'prof' to 'report' to make it more in line with other
tools, and remove the line/file keying as we really want to use
IPs like the other tools do.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-12-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Adding new subcommand "perf lock" to perf.

I have a lot of remaining ToDos, but for now perf lock can
already provide minimal functionality for analyzing lock
statistics.
Signed-off-by: NHitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-12-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add wait time and lock identification details.
Signed-off-by: NHitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-11-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
[ removed the file/line bits as we can do that better via IPs ]
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

linux/hash.h, hash header of kernel, is also useful for perf.

util/include/linuxhash.h includes linux/hash.h, so we can use
hash facilities (e.g. hash_long()) in perf now.
Signed-off-by: NHitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-3-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch is required to test the next patch for perf lock.

At 064739bc ,
support for the modifier "__data_loc" of format is added.

But, when I wanted to parse format of lock_acquired (or some
event else), raw_field_ptr() did not returned correct pointer.

So I modified raw_field_ptr() like this patch. Then
raw_field_ptr() works well.
Signed-off-by: NHitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Acked-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-2-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
[ v3: fixed minor stylistic detail ]
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This reverts commit f5a2c3dc.

This patch is required for making "perf lock rec" work.
The commit f5a2c3dc changes write_event() of builtin-record.c
. And changed write_event() sometimes doesn't stop with perf
lock rec.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
[ that commit also causes perf record to not be Ctrl-C-able,
  and it's concetually wrong to parse the data at record time
  (unconditionally - even when not needed), as we eventually
  want to be able to do zero-copy recording, at least for
  non-archive recordings.  ]
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Tell git to ignore perf-archive.
Signed-off-by: NJohn Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Checked with:
./../scripts/checkpatch.pl --terse --file perf.c

 perf.c: 51: ERROR: open brace '{' following function declarations go on the next line
 perf.c: 73: ERROR: "foo*** bar" should be "foo ***bar"
 perf.c:112: ERROR: space prohibited before that close parenthesis ')'
 perf.c:127: ERROR: space prohibited before that close parenthesis ')'
 perf.c:171: ERROR: "foo** bar" should be "foo **bar"
 perf.c:213: ERROR: "(foo*)" should be "(foo *)"
 perf.c:216: ERROR: "(foo*)" should be "(foo *)"
 perf.c:217: ERROR: space required before that '*' (ctx:OxV)
 perf.c:452: ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL
 perf.c:453: ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-7-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge reason: We want to queue up a dependent patch. Also update to
              later -rc's.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Removing one extra step needed in the tools that need this,
fixing a bug in 'perf probe' where this was not being done.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

To make it clear and allow for direct usage by, for instance,
regression test suites.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

So that we can call it directly from regression tests, and also
to reduce the size of dso__load_kernel_sym(), making it more
clear.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

As we do lazy loading of symtabs we only will know if the
specified vmlinux file is invalid when we actually have a hit in
kernel space and then try to load it. So if we get kernel hits
and there are _no_ symbols in the DSO backing the kernel map,
bail out.
Reported-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

One problem with frequency driven counters is that we cannot
predict the rate at which they trigger, therefore we have to
start them at period=1, this causes a ramp up effect. However,
if we fail to propagate the stable state on fork each new child
will have to ramp up again. This can lead to significant
artifacts in sample data.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264752266.4283.2121.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

At enable time the counter might still have a ->idx pointing to
a previously occupied location that might now be taken by
another event. Resetting the counter at that location with data
from this event will destroy the other counter's count.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100127221122.261477183@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The new Intel documentation includes Westmere arch specific
event maps that are significantly different from the Nehalem
ones. Add support for this generation.

Found the CPUID model numbers on wikipedia.

Also ammend some Nehalem constraints, spotted those when looking
for the differences between Nehalem and Westmere.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100127221122.151865645@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Put the recursion avoidance code in the generic hook instead of
replicating it in each implementation.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100127221122.057507285@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Since constraints are specified on the event number, not number
and unit mask shorten the constraint masks so that we'll
actually match something.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100127221121.967610372@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Share the meat of the x86_pmu_disable() code with hw_perf_enable().

Also remove the barrier() from that code, since I could not convince
myself we actually need it.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

- Remove stray debug code
 - Improve ugly macros a bit
 - Remove some whitespace damage
 - (Also fix up some accumulated damage in perf_event.h)
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>

x86_pmu_disable() removes the event from the cpuc->event_list[], however
since an event can only be on that list once, stop looking after we found
it.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Remove num from the fast path and save a few ops.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155536.056430539@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add a weight member to the constraint structure and avoid recomputing the
weight at runtime.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.963944926@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Instead of copying bitmasks around, pass pointers to the constraint
structure.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.887853503@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Provide compile time versions of hweight.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.797688466@chello.nl>
[ Remove some whitespace damage while we are at it ]
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Introduce INTEL_EVENT_CONSTRAINT and FIXED_EVENT_CONSTRAINT to reduce
some line length and typing work.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.688730371@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We need this to be u64 for direct assigment, but the bitmask functions
all work on unsigned long, leading to cast heaven, solve this by using a
union.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.595961269@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Constraints gets defined an u64 but in long quantities and then cast to
long.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.504916780@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

GCC was complaining the stack usage was too large, so allocate the
structure.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.411197266@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Implement correct fastpath scheduling, i.e., reuse previous assignment.
Signed-off-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[ split from larger patch]
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4b588464.1818d00a.4456.383b@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch improves event scheduling by maximizing the use of PMU
registers regardless of the order in which events are created in a group.

The algorithm takes into account the list of counter constraints for each
event. It assigns events to counters from the most constrained, i.e.,
works on only one counter, to the least constrained, i.e., works on any
counter.

Intel Fixed counter events and the BTS special event are also handled via
this algorithm which is designed to be fairly generic.

The patch also updates the validation of an event to use the scheduling
algorithm. This will cause early failure in perf_event_open().

The 2nd version of this patch follows the model used by PPC, by running
the scheduling algorithm and the actual assignment separately. Actual
assignment takes place in hw_perf_enable() whereas scheduling is
implemented in hw_perf_group_sched_in() and x86_pmu_enable().
Signed-off-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[ fixup whitespace and style nits as well as adding is_x86_event() ]
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4b5430c6.0f975e0a.1bf9.ffff85fe@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>