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: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: NArjan 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: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

If the current CPU doesn't support performance counters,
cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type can be NULL. The current
perf_counter modules don't test for that case and would thus
crash at boot time.

Bug reported by David Woodhouse.
Reported-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <19066.48028.446975.501454@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Remove duplicated #include('s) in
  arch/powerpc/kernel/mpc7450-pmu.c
  arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc970-pmu.c
Signed-off-by: NHuang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

At present, the powerpc generic (processor-independent) perf_counter
code has list of processor back-end modules, and at initialization,
it looks at the PVR (processor version register) and has a switch
statement to select a suitable processor-specific back-end.

This is going to become inconvenient as we add more processor-specific
back-ends, so this inverts the order: now each back-end checks whether
it applies to the current processor, and registers itself if so.
Furthermore, instead of looking at the PVR, back-ends now check the
cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type string and match on that.

Lastly, each back-end now specifies a name for itself so the core can
print a nice message when a back-end registers itself.

This doesn't provide any support for unregistering back-ends, but that
wouldn't be hard to do and would allow back-ends to be modules.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
LKML-Reference: <19000.55529.762227.518531@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This changes the powerpc perf_counter back-end to use unsigned long
types for hardware register values and for the value/mask pairs used
in checking whether a given set of events fit within the hardware
constraints.  This is in preparation for adding support for the PMU
on some 32-bit powerpc processors.  On 32-bit processors the hardware
registers are only 32 bits wide, and the PMU structure is generally
simpler, so 32 bits should be ample for expressing the hardware
constraints.  On 64-bit processors, unsigned long is 64 bits wide,
so using unsigned long vs. u64 (unsigned long long) makes no actual
difference.

This makes some other very minor changes: adjusting whitespace to line
things up in initialized structures, and simplifying some code in
hw_perf_disable().
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
LKML-Reference: <19000.55473.26174.331511@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The top (fastest) and last level (biggest) caches are the most
interesting ones, performance wise.
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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
[ Fixed the Nehalem LL table to LLC Reference/Miss events ]
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Pure renames only, to PERF_COUNT_HW_* and PERF_COUNT_SW_*.
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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This adds tables of event codes for the generalized cache events for
all the currently supported powerpc processors: POWER{4,5,5+,6,7} and
PPC970*, plus powerpc-specific code to use these tables when a
generalized cache event is requested.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <18992.36430.933526.742969@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Although the perf_counter API allows 63-bit raw event codes,
internally in the powerpc back-end we had been using 32-bit
event codes.  This expands them to 64 bits so that we can add
bits for specifying threshold start/stop events and instruction
sampling modes later.

This also corrects the return value of can_go_on_limited_pmc;
we were returning an event code rather than just a 0/1 value in
some circumstances. That didn't particularly matter while event
codes were 32-bit, but now that event codes are 64-bit it
might, so this fixes it.

[ Impact: extend PowerPC perfcounter interfaces from u32 to u64 ]
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18955.36874.472452.353104@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

POWER5+ and POWER6 have two hardware counters with limited functionality:
PMC5 counts instructions completed in run state and PMC6 counts cycles
in run state.  (Run state is the state when a hardware RUN bit is 1;
the idle task clears RUN while waiting for work to do and sets it when
there is work to do.)

These counters can't be written to by the kernel, can't generate
interrupts, and don't obey the freeze conditions.  That means we can
only use them for per-task counters (where we know we'll always be in
run state; we can't put a per-task counter on an idle task), and only
if we don't want interrupts and we do want to count in all processor
modes.

Obviously some counters can't go on a limited hardware counter, but there
are also situations where we can only put a counter on a limited hardware
counter - if there are already counters on that exclude some processor
modes and we want to put on a per-task cycle or instruction counter that
doesn't exclude any processor mode, it could go on if it can use a
limited hardware counter.

To keep track of these constraints, this adds a flags argument to the
processor-specific get_alternatives() functions, with three bits defined:
one to say that we can accept alternative event codes that go on limited
counters, one to say we only want alternatives on limited counters, and
one to say that this is a per-task counter and therefore events that are
gated by run state are equivalent to those that aren't (e.g. a "cycles"
event is equivalent to a "cycles in run state" event).  These flags
are computed for each counter and stored in the counter->hw.counter_base
field (slightly wonky name for what it does, but it was an existing
unused field).

Since the limited counters don't freeze when we freeze the other counters,
we need some special handling to avoid getting skew between things counted
on the limited counters and those counted on normal counters.  To minimize
this skew, if we are using any limited counters, we read PMC5 and PMC6
immediately after setting and clearing the freeze bit.  This is done in
a single asm in the new write_mmcr0() function.

The code here is specific to PMC5 and PMC6 being the limited hardware
counters.  Being more general (e.g. having a bitmap of limited hardware
counter numbers) would have meant more complex code to read the limited
counters when freezing and unfreezing the normal counters, with
conditional branches, which would have increased the skew.  Since it
isn't necessary for the code to be more general at this stage, it isn't.

This also extends the back-ends for POWER5+ and POWER6 to be able to
handle up to 6 counters rather than the 4 they previously handled.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <18936.19035.163066.892208@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: enable access to hardware feature

POWER processors have the ability to "mark" a subset of the instructions
and provide more detailed information on what happens to the marked
instructions as they flow through the pipeline.  This marking is
enabled by the "sample enable" bit in MMCRA, and there are
synchronization requirements around setting and clearing the bit.

This adds logic to the processor-specific back-ends so that they know
which events relate to marked instructions and set the sampling enable
bit if any event that we want to put on the PMU is a marked instruction
event.  It also adds logic to the generic powerpc code to do the
necessary synchronization if that bit is set.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <18908.31930.1024.228867@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This adds the back-end for the PMU on the PPC970 family.

The PPC970 allows events from the ISU to be selected in two different
ways.  Rather than use alternative event codes to express this, we
instead use a single encoding for ISU events and express the
resulting constraint (that you can't select events from all three
of FPU/IFU/VPU, ISU and IDU/STS at the same time, since they all come
in through only 2 multiplexers) using a NAND constraint field, and
work out which multiplexer is used for ISU events at compute_mmcr
time.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>