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linux/arch/alpha
Peter Zijlstra a4eaf7f146 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>
2010-09-09 20:46:30 +02:00
..
boot include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
include/asm archs: replace unifdef-y with header-y 2010-08-14 22:26:51 +02:00
kernel perf: Rework the PMU methods 2010-09-09 20:46:30 +02:00
lib
math-emu Revert "endian: #define __BYTE_ORDER" 2010-05-26 08:30:15 -07:00
mm alpha: invoke oom-killer from page fault 2010-05-26 00:40:28 +02:00
oprofile oprofile: more whitespace fixes 2008-10-15 20:55:51 +02:00
defconfig defconfig reduction 2010-08-14 22:26:53 +02:00
Kconfig time: Kill off CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME 2010-07-27 12:40:54 +02:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile alpha: link failure fix 2008-06-20 16:46:10 -07:00