Oprofile counters are setup when profiling is disabled. Thus, writing
to oprofilefs has no immediate effect. Changes are updated only after
oprofile is reenabled.

To keep userland and kernel states synchronized, we now allow
configuration of oprofile only if profiling is disabled.  In this case
it checks if the profiler is running and then disables write access to
oprofilefs by returning -EBUSY. The change should be backward
compatible with current oprofile userland daemon.
Acked-by: NMaynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

oprofile_multiplexing_init() can be removed when moving the
initialization of oprofile_time_slice to oprofile_create_files().
Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

This patch renames timeout_jiffies into an oprofile specific name. The
macro MULTIPLEXING_TIMER_DEFAULT is changed too.

Also, since this variable is controlled using oprofilefs, its
definition is moved to oprofile_files.c.
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>

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>

This patch restores default values for:

/dev/oprofile/cpu_buffer_size
/dev/oprofile/buffer_watershed
/dev/oprofile/buffer_size

when creating the oprofilefs:

 # opcontrol --deinit
 # opcontrol --init
 # cat /dev/oprofile/cpu_buffer_size
 8192
 # echo 5123 > /dev/oprofile/cpu_buffer_size
 # cat /dev/oprofile/cpu_buffer_size
 5123
 # opcontrol --deinit
 # opcontrol --init
 # cat /dev/oprofile/cpu_buffer_size
 8192
 # opcontrol --deinit

This sets the values in a defined state. Before, there was no way to
restore the defaults without rebooting the system or reloading the
module.
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>

Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.
Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
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!