kernel/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h, branch linux-3.11.y

perf: Fix perf ring buffer memory ordering

2013-11-20T20:31:39Z

commit bf378d341e4873ed928dc3c636252e6895a21f50 upstream. The PPC64 people noticed a missing memory barrier and crufty old comments in the perf ring buffer code. So update all the comments and add the missing barrier. When the architecture implements local_t using atomic_long_t there will be double barriers issued; but short of introducing more conditional barrier primitives this is the best we can do. Reported-by: Victor Kaplansky Tested-by: Victor Kaplansky Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: michael@ellerman.id.au Cc: Paul McKenney Cc: Michael Neuling Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: anton@samba.org Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131025173749.GG19466@laptop.lan Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Michael Neuling Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf/x86/intel: Support Haswell/v4 LBR format

2013-06-19T12:43:35Z

Haswell has two additional LBR from flags for TSX: in_tx and abort_tx, implemented as a new "v4" version of the LBR format. Handle those in and adjust the sign extension code to still correctly extend. The flags are exported similarly in the LBR record to the existing misprediction flag Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371515812-9646-6-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix comments in PERF_MEM_LVL bitmask

2013-04-08T11:54:24Z

This small patch fixes a mistake in the comments for the PERF_MEM_LVL_* events. The L2, L3 bits simply represent cache levels, not hits or misses. That is encoded in PERF_MEM_LVL_MISS/PERF_MEM_LVL_HIT. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130405144941.GA30503@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Add PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_DATA to RECORD_MMAP

2013-04-01T15:19:02Z

Type of mapping was lost and made it hard for a tool to distinguish code vs. data mmaps. Perf has the ability to distinguish the two. Use a bit in the header->misc bitmask to keep track of the mmap type. If PERF_RECORD_MISC_MMAP_DATA is set then the mapping is not executable (!VM_EXEC). If not set, then the mapping is executable. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: namhyung.kim@lge.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-16-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf: Add generic memory sampling interface

2013-04-01T15:15:59Z

This patch adds PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC. PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC collects the data source, i.e., where did the data associated with the sampled instruction come from. Information is stored in a perf_mem_data_src structure. It contains opcode, mem level, tlb, snoop, lock information, subject to availability in hardware. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: namhyung.kim@lge.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-8-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf/core: Add weighted samples

2013-04-01T15:15:44Z

For some events it's useful to weight sample with a hardware provided number. This expresses how expensive the action the sample represent was. This allows the profiler to scale the samples to be more informative to the programmer. There is already the period which is used similarly, but it means something different, so I chose to not overload it. Instead a new sample type for WEIGHT is added. Can be used for multiple things. Initially it is used for TSX abort costs and profiling by memory latencies (so to make expensive load appear higher up in the histograms). The concept is quite generic and can be extended to many other kinds of events or architectures, as long as the hardware provides suitable auxillary values. In principle it could be also used for software tracepoints. This adds the generic glue. A new optional sample format for a 64-bit weight value. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: namhyung.kim@lge.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-5-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf: Missing field in PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE documentation

2013-01-24T19:40:19Z

While trying to write a perf_event/mmap test for my perf_event test-suite I came across a missing field description in the PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE documentation in perf_event.h Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1301081439300.24507@vincent-weaver-1.um.maine.edu Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

2012-10-13T09:46:48Z

Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Dave Jones