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The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching between events at an user specified time interval. A new file (/dev/oprofile/time_slice) is added for the user to specify the timer interval in ms. If the number of events to profile is higher than the number of hardware counters available, the patch will schedule a work queue that switches the event counter and re-writes the different sets of values into it. The switching mechanism needs to be implemented for each architecture to support multiplexing. This patch only implements AMD CPU support, but multiplexing can be easily extended for other models and architectures. There are follow-on patches that rework parts of this patch. Signed-off-by: Jason Yeh <jason.yeh@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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#
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# General architecture dependent options
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#
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config OPROFILE
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tristate "OProfile system profiling (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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depends on PROFILING
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depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
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depends on TRACING_SUPPORT
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select TRACING
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select RING_BUFFER
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help
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OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
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whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
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and applications.
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If unsure, say N.
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config OPROFILE_IBS
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bool "OProfile AMD IBS support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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default n
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depends on OPROFILE && SMP && X86
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help
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Instruction-Based Sampling (IBS) is a new profiling
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technique that provides rich, precise program performance
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information. IBS is introduced by AMD Family10h processors
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(AMD Opteron Quad-Core processor "Barcelona") to overcome
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the limitations of conventional performance counter
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sampling.
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If unsure, say N.
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config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
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bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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default n
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depends on OPROFILE && X86
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help
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The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
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feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
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are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
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between events at an user specified time interval.
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If unsure, say N.
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config HAVE_OPROFILE
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bool
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config KPROBES
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bool "Kprobes"
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depends on KALLSYMS && MODULES
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depends on HAVE_KPROBES
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help
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Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and
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execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes
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a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful
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for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation and testing.
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If in doubt, say "N".
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config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
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bool
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help
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Some architectures are unable to perform unaligned accesses
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without the use of get_unaligned/put_unaligned. Others are
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unable to perform such accesses efficiently (e.g. trap on
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unaligned access and require fixing it up in the exception
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handler.)
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This symbol should be selected by an architecture if it can
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perform unaligned accesses efficiently to allow different
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code paths to be selected for these cases. Some network
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drivers, for example, could opt to not fix up alignment
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problems with received packets if doing so would not help
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much.
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See Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt for more
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information on the topic of unaligned memory accesses.
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config HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS
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bool
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config KRETPROBES
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def_bool y
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depends on KPROBES && HAVE_KRETPROBES
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config HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
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bool
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config HAVE_KPROBES
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bool
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config HAVE_KRETPROBES
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bool
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#
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# An arch should select this if it provides all these things:
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#
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# task_pt_regs() in asm/processor.h or asm/ptrace.h
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# arch_has_single_step() if there is hardware single-step support
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# arch_has_block_step() if there is hardware block-step support
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# asm/syscall.h supplying asm-generic/syscall.h interface
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# linux/regset.h user_regset interfaces
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# CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET #define'd in linux/elf.h
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# TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE calls tracehook_report_syscall_{entry,exit}
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# TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME calls tracehook_notify_resume()
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# signal delivery calls tracehook_signal_handler()
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#
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config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
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bool
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config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
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bool
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config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
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bool
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config HAVE_CLK
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bool
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help
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The <linux/clk.h> calls support software clock gating and
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thus are a key power management tool on many systems.
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config HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
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bool
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config HAVE_DEFAULT_NO_SPIN_MUTEXES
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bool
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source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
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