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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-24 12:59:11 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-24 12:59:18 +0200
commitd2ff6de537c61a0f05731c6679f3e1abc2d95e68 (patch)
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Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent
Merge reason: Queueing up dependent early-printk fix. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig45
-rw-r--r--init/main.c6
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 0121c0e..0aa6579 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -916,31 +916,36 @@ config AIO
by some high performance threaded applications. Disabling
this option saves about 7k.
-config HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
+config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
bool
help
See tools/perf/design.txt for details.
-menu "Performance Counters"
+menu "Kernel Performance Events And Counters"
-config PERF_COUNTERS
- bool "Kernel Performance Counters"
- default y if PROFILING
- depends on HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
+config PERF_EVENTS
+ bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
+ default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
+ depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
select ANON_INODES
help
- Enable kernel support for performance counter hardware.
+ Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
+ by software and hardware.
+
+ Software events are supported either build-in or via the
+ use of generic tracepoints.
- Performance counters are special hardware registers available
- on most modern CPUs. These registers count the number of certain
+ Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
+ counter registers. These registers count the number of certain
types of hw events: such as instructions executed, cachemisses
suffered, or branches mis-predicted - without slowing down the
kernel or applications. These registers can also trigger interrupts
when a threshold number of events have passed - and can thus be
used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
- The Linux Performance Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of
- these hardware capabilities, available via a system call. It
+ The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
+ these software and hardware cevent apabilities, available via a
+ system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
capabilities on top of those.
@@ -948,17 +953,29 @@ config PERF_COUNTERS
config EVENT_PROFILE
bool "Tracepoint profiling sources"
- depends on PERF_COUNTERS && EVENT_TRACING
+ depends on PERF_EVENTS && EVENT_TRACING
default y
help
- Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance counters.
+ Allow the use of tracepoints as software performance events.
- When this is enabled, you can create perf counters based on
+ When this is enabled, you can create perf events based on
tracepoints using PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT and the tracepoint ID
found in debugfs://tracing/events/*/*/id. (The -e/--events
option to the perf tool can parse and interpret symbolic
tracepoints, in the subsystem:tracepoint_name format.)
+config PERF_COUNTERS
+ bool "Kernel performance counters (old config option)"
+ depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
+ help
+ This config has been obsoleted by the PERF_EVENTS
+ config option - please see that one for details.
+
+ It has no effect on the kernel whether you enable
+ it or not, it is a compatibility placeholder.
+
+ Say N if unsure.
+
endmenu
config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 34971be..6107223 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
#include <linux/async.h>
#include <linux/kmemcheck.h>
#include <linux/kmemtrace.h>
+#include <linux/sfi.h>
#include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
#include <trace/boot.h>
@@ -668,12 +669,12 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
#endif
thread_info_cache_init();
cred_init();
- fork_init(num_physpages);
+ fork_init(totalram_pages);
proc_caches_init();
buffer_init();
key_init();
security_init();
- vfs_caches_init(num_physpages);
+ vfs_caches_init(totalram_pages);
radix_tree_init();
signals_init();
/* rootfs populating might need page-writeback */
@@ -689,6 +690,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
check_bugs();
acpi_early_init(); /* before LAPIC and SMP init */
+ sfi_init_late();
ftrace_init();
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