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author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2010-06-16 14:37:10 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-09-09 20:46:30 +0200 |
commit | a4eaf7f14675cb512d69f0c928055e73d0c6d252 (patch) | |
tree | e8a0f631fc28d4bd9becd2e9e2c71743c64ee3ec /README | |
parent | fa407f35e0298d841e4088f95a7f9cf6e725c6d5 (diff) | |
download | linux-a4eaf7f14675cb512d69f0c928055e73d0c6d252.tar.bz2 |
perf: Rework the PMU methods
Replace pmu::{enable,disable,start,stop,unthrottle} with
pmu::{add,del,start,stop}, all of which take a flags argument.
The new interface extends the capability to stop a counter while
keeping it scheduled on the PMU. We replace the throttled state with
the generic stopped state.
This also allows us to efficiently stop/start counters over certain
code paths (like IRQ handlers).
It also allows scheduling a counter without it starting, allowing for
a generic frozen state (useful for rotating stopped counters).
The stopped state is implemented in two different ways, depending on
how the architecture implemented the throttled state:
1) We disable the counter:
a) the pmu has per-counter enable bits, we flip that
b) we program a NOP event, preserving the counter state
2) We store the counter state and ignore all read/overflow events
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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