Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/urgent

It's useful for paging through raw traces, but just gets in the
way when scripting.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1267599873-8193-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

perf_header__read() is already done in perf_session__open(), so
remove it from the script gen case.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1267599873-8193-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The Thumb-2 instruction set does not provide an encoding
for sub pc, r0, #95 as present in the rmb() definition used
by perf. This results in compilation failure when using a
compiler targetting an instruction set other than ARM.

This patch redefines rmb() for ARM by casting the address
of the kuser helper to a function pointer, therefore getting
the compiler to take care of making the call.

Patch taken against tip/master.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1267616878-2154-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge reason: Switch from pre-merge topical split to the post-merge urgent track
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Callers of a stacktrace might pass bad frame pointers. Those
are usually checked for safety in stack walking helpers before
any dereferencing, but this is not the case when we need to go
through one more frame pointer that backlinks the irq stack to
the previous one, as we don't have any reliable address boudaries
to compare this frame pointer against.

This raises crashes when we record callchains for ftrace events
with perf because we don't use the right helpers to capture
registers there. We get wrong frame pointers as we call
task_pt_regs() even on kernel threads, which is a wrong thing
as it gives us the initial state of any kernel threads freshly
created. This is even not what we want for user tasks. What we want
is a hot snapshot of registers when the ftrace event triggers, not
the state before a task entered the kernel.

This requires more thoughts to do it correctly though.
So first put a guardian to ensure the given frame pointer
can be dereferenced to avoid crashes. We'll think about how to fix
the callers in a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: 2.6.33.x <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

To avoid these error:

   [root@doppio ~]# perf archive
   tar: .build-id/00/00000000000000000000000000000000000000: Cannot stat:
   No such file or directory
   tar: .build-id/00/00000000000000000000000000000000000000: Cannot stat:
   No such file or directory
   tar: .build-id/00/00000000000000000000000000000000000000: Cannot stat:
   No such file or directory
   tar: .build-id/00/00000000000000000000000000000000000000: Cannot stat:
   No such file or directory
   tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
   [root@doppio ~]#

More work is needed to support archiving symtabs for binaries
without a build-id, perhaps creating a perf.data UUID + adding
build-ids for the binaries copied into the cache and then have
this perf.data session UUID be a directory with symlinks to the
by now calculated build-id of the files inside it.

Or just do an extra pass and insert the calculated build-ids in
the perf.data header.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Patch 1da53e02 ("perf_events, x86: Improve x86 event scheduling")
lost us one of the fixed purpose counters and then ed8777fc
("perf_events, x86: Fix event constraint masks") broke it even
further.

Widen the fixed event mask to event+umask and specify the full config
for each of the 3 fixed purpose counters. Then let the init code fill
out the placement for the GP regs based on the cpuid info.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The ANY flag can show SMT data of another task (like 'top'),
so we want to disable it when system-wide profiling is
disabled.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

For consistency reasons this patch renames
ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL0_ENABLE to ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_ENABLE.

The following is performed:

 $ sed -i -e s/ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL0_ENABLE/ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_ENABLE/g \
   arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c \
   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p6.c \
   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c \
   arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_ppro.c
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

This patch moves code from oprofile to perf_event.h to make it also
available for usage by perf.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

We support event unthrottling in breakpoint events. It means
that if we have more than sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate/HZ,
perf will throttle, ignoring subsequent events until the next
tick.

So if ptrace exceeds this max rate, it will omit events, which
breaks the ptrace determinism that is supposed to report every
triggered breakpoints. This is likely to happen if we set
sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate to 1.

This patch removes support for unthrottling in breakpoint
events to break throttling and restore ptrace determinism.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: 2.6.33.x <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

Remove the name field from the arch_hw_breakpoint. We never deal
with target symbols in the arch level, neither do we need to ever
store it. It's a legacy for the previous version of the x86
breakpoint backend.

Let's remove it.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Remove pointless union in the breakpoint field of hw_perf_event.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

We need to deal with time ordered events to build a correct
state machine of lock events. This is why we multiplex the lock
events buffers. But the ordering is done from the kernel, on
the tracing fast path, leading to high contention between cpus.

Without multiplexing, the events appears in a weak order.
If we have four events, each split per cpu, perf record will
read the events buffers in the following order:

[ CPU0 ev0, CPU0 ev1, CPU0 ev3, CPU0 ev4, CPU1 ev0, CPU1 ev0....]

To handle a post processing reordering, we could just read and sort
the whole in memory, but it just doesn't scale with high amounts
of events: lock events can fill huge amounts in few times.

Basically we need to sort in memory and find a "grace period"
point when we know that a given slice of previously sorted events
can be committed for post-processing, so that we can unload the
memory usage step by step and keep a scalable sorting list.

There is no strong rules about how to define such "grace period".
What does this patch is:

We define a FLUSH_PERIOD value that defines a grace period in
seconds.
We want to have a slice of events covering 2 * FLUSH_PERIOD in our
sorted list.
If FLUSH_PERIOD is big enough, it ensures every events that occured
in the first half of the timeslice have all been buffered and there
are none remaining and there won't be further to put inside this
first timeslice. Then once we reach the 2 * FLUSH_PERIOD
timeslice, we flush the first half to be gentle with the memory
(the second half can still get new events in the middle, so wait
another period to flush it)

FLUSH_PERIOD is defined to 5 seconds. Say the first event started on
time t0. We can safely assume that at the time we are processing
events of t0 + 10 seconds, ther won't be anymore events to read
from perf.data that occured between t0 and t0 + 5 seconds. Hence
we can safely flush the first half.

To point out funky bugs, we have a guardian that checks a new event
timestamp is not below the last event's timestamp flushed and that
displays a warning in this case.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

I've forgot to add 'perf lock' line to command-list.txt,
so users of perf could not find perf lock when they type 'perf'.

Fixing command-list.txt requires document
(tools/perf/Documentation/perf-lock.txt).
But perf lock is too much "under construction" to write a
stable document, so this is something like pseudo document for now.

And I wrote description of perf lock at help section of
CONFIG_LOCK_STAT, this will navigate users of lock trace events.
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
LKML-Reference: <1265267295-8388-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

Add __percpu sparse annotations to hw_breakpoint.

These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be
in a different address space and warn if accessed without going
through percpu accessors.  This patch doesn't affect normal builds.

In kernel/hw_breakpoint.c, per_cpu(nr_task_bp_pinned, cpu)'s will
trigger spurious noderef related warnings from sparse.  Changing it to
&per_cpu(nr_task_bp_pinned[0], cpu) will work around the problem but
deemed to ugly by the maintainer.  Leave it alone until better
solution can be found.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B7B4B7A.9050902@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

Merge reason:
	__percpu annotations need the corresponding sparse address
space definition upstream.

Conflicts:
	tools/perf/util/probe-event.c (trivial)

Avoid kernels from exploding on AMD machines when they have any
lock debugging bits enabled.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

A recent commit introduced a preemption warning for
perf_clock(), use raw_smp_processor_id() to avoid this, it
really doesn't matter which cpu we use here.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1267198583.22519.684.camel@laptop>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Even though we don't register the counters until the child is right about
to exec(), we're still going to get at least a few events while the
fork()'d child is still executing 'perf' and in particular we're going to
get the MMAP events.

We can't distinguish the ones in the newly executed process because the
PID will be the same.

One way to solve this would be to have a PERF_RECORD_EXEC event, and when
this is seen 'perf' can flush it's map cache.  We can't use
PERF_RECORD_COMM since that's generated by other things, not just exec().

Actually, thinking about it some more, using PERF_RECORD_COMM might be a
good enough approximation.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1267196914-16238-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Split amd,p6,intel into separate files so that we can easily deal with
CONFIG_CPU_SUP_* things, needed to make things build now that perf_event.c
relies on symbols from amd.c
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Without this patch we get this for need_resched:

[root@mica ~]# perf annotate need_resched

------------------------------------------------
 Percent |      Source code & Disassembly of vmlinux
------------------------------------------------
         :
         :
         :      Disassembly of section .text:
         :
         :      ffffffff810095ed <need_resched>:
         :              return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p);
         :      }
         :
         :      static inline int need_resched(void)
         :      {
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095ed:       55                      push   %rbp
         :              return unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED));
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095ee:       be 03 00 00 00          mov    $0x3,%esi
         :
         :      static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
         :      {
         :              struct thread_info *ti;
         :              ti = (void *)(percpu_read_stable(kernel_stack) +
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095f3:       65 48 8b 3c 25 48 b5    mov    %gs:0xb548,%rdi
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095fa:       00 00
         :              return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p);
         :      }
         :
         :      static inline int need_resched(void)
         :      {
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095fc:       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
         :              return unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED));
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095ff:       48 81 ef d8 1f 00 00    sub    $0x1fd8,%rdi
    0.00 :      ffffffff81009606:       e8 9d ff ff ff          callq  ffffffff810095a8 <test_ti_thread_flag>
         :      }
    0.00 :      ffffffff8100960b:       c9                      leaveq
    0.00 :      ffffffff8100960c:       85 c0                   test   %eax,%eax
    0.00 :      ffffffff8100960e:       0f 95 c0                setne  %al
    0.00 :      ffffffff81009611:       0f b6 c0                movzbl %al,%eax
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_0:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_fn:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_1:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_2:
         :      Disassembly of section .init.text:
         :      Disassembly of section .altinstr_replacement:
         :      Disassembly of section .exit.text:
[root@mica ~]#

But from the 'perf report' result we know that there are hits
for need_resched on a 4 way machine mostly doing nothing, so
after adding code to show what is in each hist offset and
collapsing IP hits for what happens between objdump lines we
get, for the same perf.data file:

[root@mica ~]# perf annotate -v need_resched

------------------------------------------------
 Percent |      Source code & Disassembly of vmlinux
------------------------------------------------
         :
         :
         :      Disassembly of section .text:
         :
         :      ffffffff810095ed <need_resched>:
         :              return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p);
         :      }
         :
         :      static inline int need_resched(void)
         :      {
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095ed:       55                      push   %rbp
         :              return unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED));
   52.78 :      ffffffff810095ee:       be 03 00 00 00          mov    $0x3,%esi
         :
         :      static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
         :      {
         :              struct thread_info *ti;
         :              ti = (void *)(percpu_read_stable(kernel_stack) +
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095f3:       65 48 8b 3c 25 48 b5    mov    %gs:0xb548,%rdi
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095fa:       00 00
         :              return (state & TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) || __fatal_signal_pending(p);
         :      }
         :
         :      static inline int need_resched(void)
         :      {
    0.00 :      ffffffff810095fc:       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
         :              return unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED));
    9.72 :      ffffffff810095ff:       48 81 ef d8 1f 00 00    sub    $0x1fd8,%rdi
    0.00 :      ffffffff81009606:       e8 9d ff ff ff          callq  ffffffff810095a8 <test_ti_thread_flag>
         :      }
    0.00 :      ffffffff8100960b:       c9                      leaveq
    0.00 :      ffffffff8100960c:       85 c0                   test   %eax,%eax
   37.50 :      ffffffff8100960e:       0f 95 c0                setne  %al
    0.00 :      ffffffff81009611:       0f b6 c0                movzbl %al,%eax
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_0:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_fn:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_1:
         :      Disassembly of section .vsyscall_2:
         :      Disassembly of section .init.text:
         :      Disassembly of section .altinstr_replacement:
         :      Disassembly of section .exit.text:
[root@mica ~]#

And now 'perf annotate -v', verbose mode, will show the hits per
precise IP, so that one can make sense of the attribution to
each objdumop line:

[root@mica ~]# perf annotate -v need_resched
Looking at the vmlinux_path (5 entries long)
Using /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc8-tip-00784-g3471df5-dirty/build/vmlinux
for symbols annotate_sym: filename=/lib/modules/2.6.33-rc8-tip-00784-g3471df5-dirty/build/vmlinux, sym=need_resched, start=0xffffffff810095ed, end=0xffffffff81009614

------------------------------------------------
 Percent |      Source code & Disassembly of vmlinux
------------------------------------------------
                ffffffff810095f1: 152
                ffffffff81009603: 28
                ffffffff8100960f: 55
                ffffffff81009610: 53
                          h->sum: 288
<SNIP same annotation>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1267194194-15670-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

During switching virtual counters there is access to perfctr msrs. If
the counter is not available this fails due to an invalid
address. This patch fixes this.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

Multiple virtual counters share one physical counter. The reservation
of virtual counters fails due to duplicate allocation of the same
counter. The counters are already reserved. Thus, virtual counter
reservation may removed at all. This also makes the code easier.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

Currently, oprofile fails silently on platforms where a non-OS entity
such as the system firmware "enables" and uses a performance
counter. There is a warning in the code for this case.

The warning indicates an already running counter. If oprofile doesn't
collect data, then try using a different performance counter on your
platform to monitor the desired event. Delete the counter from the
desired event by editing the

 /usr/share/oprofile/<cpu_type>/<cpu>/events

file. If the event cannot be monitored by any other counter, contact
your hardware or BIOS vendor.

Cc: Shashi Belur <shashi-kiran.belur@hp.com>
Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

This patch generates a warning if a counter is already active.

Implemented for AMD and P6 models. P4 is not supported.

Cc: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Cc: Shashi Belur <shashi-kiran.belur@hp.com>
Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

IBS selects an op (execution operation) for sampling by counting
either cycles or dispatched ops. Better statistical samples can be
produced by adding a software generated random offset to the periodic
op counter value with each sample.

This patch adds software randomization to the IBS periodic op
counter. The lower 12 bits of the 20 bit counter are
randomized. IbsOpCurCnt is initialized with a 12 bit random value.

There is a work around if the hw can not write to IbsOpCurCnt. Then
the lower 8 bits of the 16 bit IbsOpMaxCnt [15:0] value are randomized
in the range of -128 to +127 by adding/subtracting an offset to the
maximum count (IbsOpMaxCnt).

The linear feedback shift register (LFSR) algorithm is used for
pseudo-random number generation to have low impact to the memory
system.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

This patch implements a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) for
pseudo-random number generation for IBS.

For IBS measurements it would be good to minimize memory traffic in
the interrupt handler since every access pollutes the data
caches. Computing a maximal period LFSR just needs shifts and ORs.

The LFSR method is good enough to randomize the ops at low
overhead. 16 pseudo-random bits are enough for the implementation and
it doesn't matter that the pattern repeats with a fairly short
cycle. It only needs to break up (hard) periodic sampling behavior.

The logic was designed by Paul Drongowski.
Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

This patch adds IBS feature detection using cpuid flags. An IBS
capability mask is introduced to test for certain IBS features. The
bit mask is the same as for IBS cpuid feature flags (Fn8000_001B_EAX),
but bit 0 is used to indicate the existence of IBS.

The patch also changes the handling of the IbsOpCntCtl bit (periodic
op counter count control). The oprofilefs file for this feature
(ibs_op/dispatched_ops) will be only exposed if the feature is
available, also the default for the bit is set to count clock cycles.

In general, the userland can detect the availability of a feature by
checking for the corresponding file in oprofilefs. If it exists, the
feature also exists. This may lead to a dynamic file layout depending
on the cpu type with that the userland has to deal with. Current
opcontrol is compatible.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

Standard AMD systems have the same number of nodes as there are
northbridge devices. However, there may kernel configurations
(especially for 32 bit) or system setups exist, where the node number
is different or it can not be detected properly. Thus the check is not
reliable and may fail though IBS setup was fine. For this reason it is
better to remove the check.

Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

OProfile support for IBS is now for several versions in the
kernel. The feature is stable now and the code can be activated
permanently.

As a side effect IBS now works also on nosmp configs.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

OProfile is already used for a long time and no longer experimental.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

The commit

 1155de47 ring-buffer: Make it generally available

already made ring-buffer available without the TRACING option
enabled. This patch removes the TRACING dependency from oprofile.

Fixes also oprofile configuration on ia64.

The patch also applies to the 2.6.32-stable kernel.
Reported-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

We re-program the event control register every time we reset the count,
this appears to be superflous, hence remove it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Since the cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in() is always
smp_processor_id(), simplify the code a little by removing this argument
and using the current cpu where needed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1265890918.5396.3.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>