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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-11 13:22:43 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-11 13:22:43 -0700 |
| commit | 4f0ac854167846bd55cd81dbc9a36e03708aa01c (patch) | |
| tree | 0eb34d18a667f8e68ad9255f791560b028fed2a6 /arch/x86/include/asm | |
| parent | b9356c53ba2f593081e5aa45eb67adcce243d1c0 (diff) | |
| parent | 6b58e7f146f8d79c08f62087f928e1f01747de71 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits)
perf tools: Avoid unnecessary work in directory lookups
perf stat: Clean up statistics calculations a bit more
perf stat: More advanced variance computation
perf stat: Use stddev_mean in stead of stddev
perf stat: Remove the limit on repeat
perf stat: Change noise calculation to use stddev
x86, perf_counter, bts: Do not allow kernel BTS tracing for now
x86, perf_counter, bts: Correct pointer-to-u64 casts
x86, perf_counter, bts: Fail if BTS is not available
perf_counter: Fix output-sharing error path
perf trace: Fix read_string()
perf trace: Print out in nanoseconds
perf tools: Seek to the end of the header area
perf trace: Fix parsing of perf.data
perf trace: Sample timestamps as well
perf_counter: Introduce new (non-)paranoia level to allow raw tracepoint access
perf trace: Sample the CPU too
perf tools: Work around strict aliasing related warnings
perf tools: Clean up warnings list in the Makefile
perf tools: Complete support for dynamic strings
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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h index fa64e401589..e7b7c938ae2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h @@ -84,6 +84,16 @@ union cpuid10_edx { #define MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_FIXED_CTR2 0x30b #define X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED_BUS_CYCLES (X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED + 2) +/* + * We model BTS tracing as another fixed-mode PMC. + * + * We choose a value in the middle of the fixed counter range, since lower + * values are used by actual fixed counters and higher values are used + * to indicate other overflow conditions in the PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS msr. + */ +#define X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED_BTS (X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED + 16) + + #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS extern void init_hw_perf_counters(void); extern void perf_counters_lapic_init(void); |