Return with -EINVAL for invalid parameters instead of setting the
default value in oprofile_set_timeout().
Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing feature
enables OProfile to gather more events than counters are provided by
the hardware. This is realized by switching between events at an user
specified time interval.

A new file (/dev/oprofile/time_slice) is added for the user to specify
the timer interval in ms. If the number of events to profile is higher
than the number of hardware counters available, the patch will
schedule a work queue that switches the event counter and re-writes
the different sets of values into it. The switching mechanism needs to
be implemented for each architecture to support multiplexing. This
patch only implements AMD CPU support, but multiplexing can be easily
extended for other models and architectures.

There are follow-on patches that rework parts of this patch.
Signed-off-by: NJason Yeh <jason.yeh@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

Delta patch to f7df8ed1 for
tip/cpus4096.

Moved initialization to sync_start()/sync_stop(). No changes needed in
buffer_sync.h and oprof.c anymore.
Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: use new cpumask API.

Convert misc driver functions to use struct cpumask.

To Do:
  - Convert iucv_buffer_cpumask to cpumask_var_t.
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: NDean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: oprofile-list@lists.sf.net
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: virtualization@lists.osdl.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org

This patch renames kernel-wide identifiers to something more oprofile
specific names.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

Reverting commit 1a960b40 for the main
branch. Multiplexing will be tracked on a separate feature branch.

Conflicts:

    arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c

This patch introduces multiplexing support for the Oprofile kernel
module. It basically adds a new function pointer in oprofile_operator
allowing each architecture to supply its callback to switch between
different sets of event when the timer expires. Userspace tools can
modify the time slice through /dev/oprofile/time_slice.

It also modifies the number of counters exposed to the userspace through
/dev/oprofile. For example, the number of counters for AMD CPUs are
changed to 32 and multiplexed in the sets of 4.
Signed-off-by: NJason Yeh <jason.yeh@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: oprofile-list <oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

From: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com>

This patch updates the existing arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_cell.c
to add in the SPU profiling capabilities.  In addition, a 'cell' subdirectory
was added to arch/powerpc/oprofile to hold Cell-specific SPU profiling code.
Exports spu_set_profile_private_kref and spu_get_profile_private_kref which
are used by OProfile to store private profile information in spufs data
structures.

Also incorporated several fixes from other patches (rrn).  Check pointer
returned from kzalloc.  Eliminated unnecessary cast.  Better error
handling and cleanup in the related area.  64-bit unsigned long parameter
was being demoted to 32-bit unsigned int and eventually promoted back to
unsigned long.
Signed-off-by: NCarl Love <carll@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMaynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBob Nelson <rrnelson@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

Signed-off-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!