On power8 we have a new SIER (Sampled Instruction Event Register), which
captures information about instructions when we have random sampling
enabled.
Add support for loading the SIER into pt_regs, overloading regs->dar.
Also set the new NO_SIPR flag in regs->result if we don't have SIPR.
Update regs_sihv/sipr() to look for SIPR/SIHV in SIER.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On power8 the presence or absence of SIPR depends on settings at runtime,
so convert to using a dynamic flag for NO_SIPR. Existing backends that
set NO_SIPR unconditionally set the dynamic flag obviously.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Add an accessor for regs->result so we can use it to store more flags in
future.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On power8 the SIPR and SIHV are not in MMCRA, so convert the routines
to take regs and change the names accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
In perf_ip_adjust() we potentially use the MMCRA[SLOT] field to adjust
the reported IP of a sampled instruction.
Currently the logic is written so that if the backend does NOT have
the PPMU_ALT_SIPR flag set then we assume MMCRA[SLOT] exists.
However on power8 we do not want to set ALT_SIPR (it's in a third
location), and we also do not have MMCRA[SLOT].
So add a new flag which only indicates whether MMCRA[SLOT] exists.
Naively we'd set it on everything except power6/7, because they set
ALT_SIPR, and we've reversed the polarity of the flag. But it's more
complicated than that.
mpc7450 is 32-bit, and uses its own version of perf_ip_adjust()
which doesn't use MMCRA[SLOT], so it doesn't need the new flag set and
the behaviour is unchanged.
PPC970 (and I assume power4) don't have MMCRA[SLOT], so shouldn't have
the new flag set. This is a behaviour change on those cpus, though we
were probably getting lucky and the bits in question were 0.
power5 and power5+ set the new flag, behaviour unchanged.
power6 & power7 do not set the new flag, behaviour unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
. perf probe: Fix segfault due to testing the wrong pointer for NULL,
from Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli.
. libtraceevent: Remove hard coded include to /usr/local/include in
Makefile, which causes cross builds to include host header files,
fix from Jack Mitchell.
. perf record: Use the right target interface for synthesizing
threads when --cpu/-C option is used, fix from Jiri Olsa.
. Check if -DFORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is allowed, as gcc 4.7.2 defines
it and then the build is broken when it is redefined in perf,
fix from Marcin Slusarz.
. Fix build with NO_NEWT=1, that can happen explicitely or when
the newt-devel package is not installed, from Michael Ellerman.
. perf/POWER7: Create a sysfs format entry for Power7 events, missing
patch from a patchseries already merged, from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
. Fix LIBNUMA build with glibc 2.12 and older, from Vinson Lee.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent
Pull perf/urgent fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
. perf probe: Fix segfault due to testing the wrong pointer for NULL,
from Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli.
. libtraceevent: Remove hard coded include to /usr/local/include in
Makefile, which causes cross builds to include host header files,
fix from Jack Mitchell.
. perf record: Use the right target interface for synthesizing
threads when --cpu/-C option is used, fix from Jiri Olsa.
. Check if -DFORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is allowed, as gcc 4.7.2 defines
it and then the build is broken when it is redefined in perf,
fix from Marcin Slusarz.
. Fix build with NO_NEWT=1, that can happen explicitely or when
the newt-devel package is not installed, from Michael Ellerman.
. perf/POWER7: Create a sysfs format entry for Power7 events, missing
patch from a patchseries already merged, from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
. Fix LIBNUMA build with glibc 2.12 and older, from Vinson Lee.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Create a sysfs entry, '/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/event'
which describes the format of the POWER7 PMU events.
This code is based on corresponding code in x86.
Changelog[v4]: [Michael Ellerman, Paul Mckerras] The event format is different
for other POWER cpus. So move the code to POWER7-specific,
power7-pmu.c Also, the POWER7 format uses bits 0-19 not 0-20.
Changelog[v2]: [Jiri Osla] Use PMU_FORMAT_ATTR rather than duplicating code.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130306054826.GA14627@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"So from the depth of frozen Minnesota, here's the powerpc pull request
for 3.9. It has a few interesting highlights, in addition to the
usual bunch of bug fixes, minor updates, embedded device tree updates
and new boards:
- Hand tuned asm implementation of SHA1 (by Paulus & Michael
Ellerman)
- Support for Doorbell interrupts on Power8 (kind of fast
thread-thread IPIs) by Ian Munsie
- Long overdue cleanup of the way we handle relocation of our open
firmware trampoline (prom_init.c) on 64-bit by Anton Blanchard
- Support for saving/restoring & context switching the PPR (Processor
Priority Register) on server processors that support it. This
allows the kernel to preserve thread priorities established by
userspace. By Haren Myneni.
- DAWR (new watchpoint facility) support on Power8 by Michael Neuling
- Ability to change the DSCR (Data Stream Control Register) which
controls cache prefetching on a running process via ptrace by
Alexey Kardashevskiy
- Support for context switching the TAR register on Power8 (new
branch target register meant to be used by some new specific
userspace perf event interrupt facility which is yet to be enabled)
by Ian Munsie.
- Improve preservation of the CFAR register (which captures the
origin of a branch) on various exception conditions by Paulus.
- Move the Bestcomm DMA driver from arch powerpc to drivers/dma where
it belongs by Philippe De Muyter
- Support for Transactional Memory on Power8 by Michael Neuling
(based on original work by Matt Evans). For those curious about
the feature, the patch contains a pretty good description."
(See commit db8ff90702: "powerpc: Documentation for transactional
memory on powerpc" for the mentioned description added to the file
Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt)
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (140 commits)
powerpc/kexec: Disable hard IRQ before kexec
powerpc/85xx: l2sram - Add compatible string for BSC9131 platform
powerpc/85xx: bsc9131 - Correct typo in SDHC device node
powerpc/e500/qemu-e500: enable coreint
powerpc/mpic: allow coreint to be determined by MPIC version
powerpc/fsl_pci: Store the pci ctlr device ptr in the pci ctlr struct
powerpc/85xx: Board support for ppa8548
powerpc/fsl: remove extraneous DIU platform functions
arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/p1022_ds.c: adjust duplicate test
powerpc: Documentation for transactional memory on powerpc
powerpc: Add transactional memory to pseries and ppc64 defconfigs
powerpc: Add config option for transactional memory
powerpc: Add transactional memory to POWER8 cpu features
powerpc: Add new transactional memory state to the signal context
powerpc: Hook in new transactional memory code
powerpc: Routines for FP/VSX/VMX unavailable during a transaction
powerpc: Add transactional memory unavaliable execption handler
powerpc: Add reclaim and recheckpoint functions for context switching transactional memory processes
powerpc: Add FP/VSX and VMX register load functions for transactional memory
powerpc: Add helper functions for transactional memory context switching
...
Make some POWER7-specific perf events available in sysfs.
$ /bin/ls -1 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/events/
branch-instructions
branch-misses
cache-misses
cache-references
cpu-cycles
instructions
PM_BRU_FIN
PM_BRU_MPRED
PM_CMPLU_STALL
PM_CYC
PM_GCT_NOSLOT_CYC
PM_INST_CMPL
PM_LD_MISS_L1
PM_LD_REF_L1
stalled-cycles-backend
stalled-cycles-frontend
where the 'PM_*' events are POWER specific and the others are the
generic events.
This will enable users to specify these events with their symbolic
names rather than with their raw code.
perf stat -e 'cpu/PM_CYC' ...
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130123062528.GE13720@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Make the generic perf events in POWER7 available via sysfs.
$ ls /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/events
branch-instructions
branch-misses
cache-misses
cache-references
cpu-cycles
instructions
stalled-cycles-backend
stalled-cycles-frontend
$ cat /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/events/cache-misses
event=0x400f0
This patch is based on commits that implement this functionality on x86.
Eg:
commit a47473939d
Author: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Oct 10 14:53:11 2012 +0200
perf/x86: Make hardware event translations available in sysfs
Changelog:[v2]
[Jiri Osla] Drop EVENT_ID() macro since it is only used once.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130123062454.GD13720@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Define and use macros to identify perf events codes This would make it
easier and more readable when these event codes need to be used in more
than one place.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130123062353.GB13720@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf/Power: PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE does not reenable event
If we disable a perf event because we exceeded the specified ->event_limit,
power_pmu_stop() sets the PERF_HES_STOPPED flag on the event.
If the application then re-enables the event using PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE
ioctl, we don't ever clear this STOPPED flag. Consequently, the user space
is never notified of the event.
Following message has more background and test case.
http://lists.eecs.utk.edu/pipermail/ptools-perfapi/2012-October/002528.html
Used the following test cases to verify that this patch works on latest PAPI.
$ papi.git/src/ctests/nonthread PAPI_TOT_CYC@5000000
$ papi.git/src/ctests/overflow_single_event
Changelog[v2]:
- [Paul Mackerras] Also clear PERF_HES_UPTODATE flag since we are
restarting the event; cleanup comments and patch description.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
On POWER7 when we have really small counts left before overflow, we can take a
PMU IRQ, but the PMC gets wound back to just before the overflow.
If the kernel is setting the PMC to a value just before the overflow, we can
get interrupted again without the PMC making any progress (ie another buggy
overflow). In this case, we can end up making no forward progress, with the
PMC interrupt returning us to the same count over and over.
The below detects when we are making no forward progress (ie. delta = 0) and
then increases the amount left before the overflow. This stops us from locking
up.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reviewed-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
cc: Linux PPC dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
If a PMC is about to overflow on a counter that's on an active perf event
(ie. less than 256 from the end) and a _different_ PMC overflows just at this
time (a PMC that's not on an active perf event), we currently mark the event as
found, but in reality it's not as it's likely the other PMC that caused the
IRQ. Since we mark it as found the second catch all for overflows doesn't run,
and we don't reset the overflowing PMC ever. Hence we keep hitting that same
PMC IRQ over and over and don't reset the actual overflowing counter.
This is a rewrite of the perf interrupt handler for book3s to get around this.
We now check to see if any of the PMCs have actually overflowed (ie >=
0x80000000). If yes, record it for active counters and just reset it for
inactive counters. If it's not overflowed, then we check to see if it's one of
the buggy power7 counters and if it is, record it and continue. If none of the
PMCs match this, then we make note that we couldn't find the PMC that caused
the IRQ.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reviewed-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
cc: Linux PPC dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Support for stalled-cycles-frontend and stalled-cycles-backend is
added for e500-based processors.
The following mappings are used:
stalled-cycles-frontend or idle-cycles-frontend:
Com:18 Cycles decode stalled
stalled-cycles-backend or idle-cycles-backend
Com:19 cycles issue stalled
Signed-off-by: Chris Freehill <chrisf@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
If we have two cache events that require different settings of the L2SEL
bits in MMCR1 then we can not schedule those events simultaneously. Add
logic to the constraint handling to express that.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
powerpc/perf: Sample only if SIAR-Valid bit is set in P7+
On POWER7+ two new bits (mmcra[35] and mmcra[36]) indicate whether the
contents of SIAR and SDAR are valid.
For marked instructions on P7+, we must save the contents of SIAR and
SDAR registers only if these new bits are set.
This code/check for the SIAR-Valid bit is specific to P7+, so rather than
waste a CPU-feature bit use the PVR flag.
Note that Carl Love proposed a similar change for oprofile:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/22/309
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We have an old FIXME in reg.h which points out that we should standardise
on PVR_foo for our PVR #defines. Currently we use PVR_ on 32-bit and PV_
on 64-bit.
So do that rename and remove the FIXME.
Seeing as we're touching all but one usage of __is_processor(), rename it
to something less ugly and more indicative of what it does, which is
simply to check the PVR version.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
For certain speculative events on Power7, 'perf stat' reports far higher
event count than 'perf record' for the same event.
As described in following commit, a performance monitor exception is raised
even when the the performance events are rolled back.
commit 0837e3242c
Author: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Date: Wed Mar 9 14:38:42 2011 +1100
perf_event_interrupt() records an event only when an overflow occurs. But
this check for overflow is a simple 'if (val < 0)'.
Because the events are rolled back, this check for overflow fails and the
event is not recorded. perf_event_interrupt() later uses pmc_overflow() to
detect the overflow and resets the counters and the events are lost completely.
To properly detect the overflow of rolled back events, use pmc_overflow()
even when recording events.
To reproduce:
$ cat strcpy.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
main()
{
char buf[256];
alarm(5);
while(1)
strcpy(buf, "string1");
}
$ perf record -e r20014 ./strcpy
$ perf report -n > report.1
$ perf stat -e r20014 > report.2
# Compare report.1 and report.2
Reported-by: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We use SIAR or regs->nip for the instruction pointer depending on
the PMU configuration, but we always use regs->nip in the callchain.
Use perf_instruction_pointer so the backtrace is consistent.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
At the moment we always use the SIAR if the PMU supports continuous
sampling. Unfortunately the SIAR and the PMU exception are not
synchronised for non marked events so we can end up with callchains
that dont make sense.
The following patch checks the HV and PR bits for samples coming from
userspace and always uses pt_regs for them. Userspace will never have
interrupts off so there is no real advantage to using the SIAR for
non marked events in userspace.
I had experimented with a patch that did a similar thing for kernel
samples but we lost a significant amount of information. I was
unable to profile any of our early exception code for example.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The logic to choose whether to use the SIAR or get the information
out of pt_regs is going to get more complicated, so do it once in
perf_read_regs.
We overload regs->result which is gross but we are already doing it
with regs->dsisr.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We want to access the MMCRA_SIHV and MMCRA_SIPR bits elsewhere so
create mmcra_sihv and mmcra_sipr which hide the differences between
the old and new layout of the bits.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We always need to pass the last sample period to
perf_sample_data_init(), otherwise the event distribution will be
wrong. Thus, modifiyng the function interface with the required period
as argument. So basically a pattern like this:
perf_sample_data_init(&data, ~0ULL);
data.period = event->hw.last_period;
will now be like that:
perf_sample_data_init(&data, ~0ULL, event->hw.last_period);
Avoids unininitialized data.period and simplifies code.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1333390758-10893-3-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
970 and Power4 don't support "continuous sampling" which means that
when we aren't in marked instruction sampling mode (marked events),
SIAR isn't updated with the last instruction sampled before the
perf interrupt. On those processors, we must thus use the exception
SRR0 value as the sampled instruction pointer.
Those processors also don't support the SIPR and SIHV bits in MMCRA
which means we need some kind of heuristic to decide if SIAR values
represent kernel or user addresses.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Pull powerpc merge from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"Here's the powerpc batch for this merge window. It is going to be a
bit more nasty than usual as in touching things outside of
arch/powerpc mostly due to the big iSeriesectomy :-) We finally got
rid of the bugger (legacy iSeries support) which was a PITA to
maintain and that nobody really used anymore.
Here are some of the highlights:
- Legacy iSeries is gone. Thanks Stephen ! There's still some bits
and pieces remaining if you do a grep -ir series arch/powerpc but
they are harmless and will be removed in the next few weeks
hopefully.
- The 'fadump' functionality (Firmware Assisted Dump) replaces the
previous (equivalent) "pHyp assisted dump"... it's a rewrite of a
mechanism to get the hypervisor to do crash dumps on pSeries, the
new implementation hopefully being much more reliable. Thanks
Mahesh Salgaonkar.
- The "EEH" code (pSeries PCI error handling & recovery) got a big
spring cleaning, motivated by the need to be able to implement a
new backend for it on top of some new different type of firwmare.
The work isn't complete yet, but a good chunk of the cleanups is
there. Note that this adds a field to struct device_node which is
not very nice and which Grant objects to. I will have a patch soon
that moves that to a powerpc private data structure (hopefully
before rc1) and we'll improve things further later on (hopefully
getting rid of the need for that pointer completely). Thanks Gavin
Shan.
- I dug into our exception & interrupt handling code to improve the
way we do lazy interrupt handling (and make it work properly with
"edge" triggered interrupt sources), and while at it found & fixed
a wagon of issues in those areas, including adding support for page
fault retry & fatal signals on page faults.
- Your usual random batch of small fixes & updates, including a bunch
of new embedded boards, both Freescale and APM based ones, etc..."
I fixed up some conflicts with the generalized irq-domain changes from
Grant Likely, hopefully correctly.
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (141 commits)
powerpc/ps3: Do not adjust the wrapper load address
powerpc: Remove the rest of the legacy iSeries include files
powerpc: Remove the remaining CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES pieces
init: Remove CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES
powerpc: Remove FW_FEATURE ISERIES from arch code
tty/hvc_vio: FW_FEATURE_ISERIES is no longer selectable
powerpc/spufs: Fix double unlocks
powerpc/5200: convert mpc5200 to use of_platform_populate()
powerpc/mpc5200: add options to mpc5200_defconfig
powerpc/mpc52xx: add a4m072 board support
powerpc/mpc5200: update mpc5200_defconfig to fit for charon board
Documentation/powerpc/mpc52xx.txt: Checkpatch cleanup
powerpc/44x: Add additional device support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
powerpc/44x: Add support PCI-E for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
MAINTAINERS: Update PowerPC 4xx tree
powerpc/44x: The bug fixed support for APM821xx SoC and Bluestone board
powerpc: document the FSL MPIC message register binding
powerpc: add support for MPIC message register API
powerpc/fsl: Added aliased MSIIR register address to MSI node in dts
powerpc/85xx: mpc8548cds - add 36-bit dts
...
The perf code has grown a lot since it started, and is big enough to
warrant its own subdirectory. For reference it's ~60% bigger than the
oprofile code. It declutters the kernel directory, makes it simpler to
grep for "just perf stuff", and allows us to shorten some filenames.
While we're at it, make it more obvious that we have two implementations
of the core perf logic. One for (roughly) Book3S CPUs, which was the
original implementation, and the other for Freescale embedded CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
