[GIT PULL] perf_event/tracing/powerpc patches from Anton Blanchard

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Oct 29 12:44:28 EST 2009


On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 11:56 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Here is a series of patches from Anton Blanchard that implement some
> nice tracing and perf_event features on powerpc.  One of them is
> generic perf_event stuff (adding software events for alignment faults
> and instruction emulation faults).
> 
> Since this touches the perf_event and tracing subsystems as well as the
> powerpc architecture code, I think the best way forward is for both
> Ingo and Ben to pull it into their trees.  I have based it on the most
> recent point in Linus' tree that Ingo had pulled into his perf
> branches (as of yesterday or so).

This is -next material right ?

Cheers,
Ben.

> Thanks,
> Paul.
> 
> The following changes since commit a3ccf63ee643ef243cbf8918da8b3f9238f10029:
>   Linus Torvalds (1):
>         Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/.../ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/perf.git master
> 
> Anton Blanchard (14):
>       powerpc: perf_event: Log invalid data addresses as all 1s
>       powerpc: perf_event: Enable SDAR in continous sample mode
>       perf_event: Add alignment-faults and emulation-faults software events
>       powerpc: Create PPC_WARN_ALIGNMENT to match PPC_WARN_EMULATED
>       powerpc: perf_event: Add alignment-faults and emulation-faults software events
>       powerpc: tracing: Add powerpc tracepoints for interrupt entry and exit
>       powerpc: tracing: Add powerpc tracepoints for timer entry and exit
>       powerpc: tracing: Add hypervisor call tracepoints
>       powerpc: tracing: Give hypervisor call tracepoints access to arguments
>       powerpc: Disable HCALL_STATS by default
>       powerpc: Export powerpc_debugfs_root
>       powerpc: perf_event: Cleanup copy_page output by hiding setup symbol
>       powerpc: perf_event: Hide iseries_check_pending_irqs
>       powerpc: perf_event: Cleanup output by adding symbols
> 
>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug                   |    2 +-
>  arch/powerpc/configs/pseries_defconfig       |    2 +-
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/emulated_ops.h      |   19 ++++-
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/hvcall.h            |    2 +
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h               |    2 +
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/trace.h             |  133 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/align.c                  |   12 +-
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S               |    4 +-
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S         |    3 +
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c                    |    6 +
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c             |    2 +-
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/power5+-pmu.c            |    4 -
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/power5-pmu.c             |    6 +-
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/power6-pmu.c             |    2 +-
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/power7-pmu.c             |    6 +-
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc970-pmu.c             |    4 -
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c           |    1 +
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c                   |    6 +
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c                  |   18 ++--
>  arch/powerpc/lib/copypage_64.S               |    4 +-
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall.S      |  132 +++++++++++++++----------
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall_inst.c |   38 ++++++++
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c        |   33 +++++++
>  include/linux/perf_counter.h                 |    2 +
>  include/linux/perf_event.h                   |    2 +
>  kernel/perf_event.c                          |    2 +
>  tools/perf/design.txt                        |    2 +
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c               |    4 +
>  28 files changed, 357 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/trace.h




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