perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events

Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

  FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

  sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

  for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
  done

  FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
  with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
  over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
  in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
  better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
  instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

3 files changed, 15 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/perf_counter.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/perf_counter.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d7a8ca0e49..00000000000
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/perf_counter.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-#ifndef __ASM_SPARC_PERF_COUNTER_H
-#define __ASM_SPARC_PERF_COUNTER_H
-
-extern void set_perf_counter_pending(void);
-
-#define	PERF_COUNTER_INDEX_OFFSET	0
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS
-extern void init_hw_perf_counters(void);
-#else
-static inline void init_hw_perf_counters(void)	{ }
-#endif
-
-#endif
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/perf_event.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/perf_event.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7e2669894ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/perf_event.h
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#ifndef __ASM_SPARC_PERF_EVENT_H
+#define __ASM_SPARC_PERF_EVENT_H
+
+extern void set_perf_event_pending(void);
+
+#define	PERF_EVENT_INDEX_OFFSET	0
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
+extern void init_hw_perf_events(void);
+#else
+static inline void init_hw_perf_events(void)	{ }
+#endif
+
+#endif
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/unistd.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/unistd.h
index 706df669f3b..42f2316c3ea 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/unistd.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/unistd.h
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@
 #define __NR_preadv		324
 #define __NR_pwritev		325
 #define __NR_rt_tgsigqueueinfo	326
-#define __NR_perf_counter_open	327
+#define __NR_perf_event_open	327
 
 #define NR_SYSCALLS		328