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>

4 files changed, 19 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/entry_arch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/entry_arch.h
index 5e3f2044f0d..f5693c81a1d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/entry_arch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/entry_arch.h
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ BUILD_INTERRUPT(apic_timer_interrupt,LOCAL_TIMER_VECTOR)
 BUILD_INTERRUPT(error_interrupt,ERROR_APIC_VECTOR)
 BUILD_INTERRUPT(spurious_interrupt,SPURIOUS_APIC_VECTOR)
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS
+#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
 BUILD_INTERRUPT(perf_pending_interrupt, LOCAL_PENDING_VECTOR)
 #endif
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h
index e7b7c938ae2..ad7ce3fd506 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-#ifndef _ASM_X86_PERF_COUNTER_H
-#define _ASM_X86_PERF_COUNTER_H
+#ifndef _ASM_X86_PERF_EVENT_H
+#define _ASM_X86_PERF_EVENT_H
 
 /*
- * Performance counter hw details:
+ * Performance event hw details:
  */
 
 #define X86_PMC_MAX_GENERIC					8
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 union cpuid10_eax {
 	struct {
 		unsigned int version_id:8;
-		unsigned int num_counters:8;
+		unsigned int num_events:8;
 		unsigned int bit_width:8;
 		unsigned int mask_length:8;
 	} split;
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ union cpuid10_eax {
 
 union cpuid10_edx {
 	struct {
-		unsigned int num_counters_fixed:4;
+		unsigned int num_events_fixed:4;
 		unsigned int reserved:28;
 	} split;
 	unsigned int full;
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ union cpuid10_edx {
 
 
 /*
- * Fixed-purpose performance counters:
+ * Fixed-purpose performance events:
  */
 
 /*
@@ -87,22 +87,22 @@ union cpuid10_edx {
 /*
  * 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
+ * We choose a value in the middle of the fixed event range, since lower
+ * values are used by actual fixed events 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);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
+extern void init_hw_perf_events(void);
+extern void perf_events_lapic_init(void);
 
-#define PERF_COUNTER_INDEX_OFFSET			0
+#define PERF_EVENT_INDEX_OFFSET			0
 
 #else
-static inline void init_hw_perf_counters(void)		{ }
-static inline void perf_counters_lapic_init(void)	{ }
+static inline void init_hw_perf_events(void)		{ }
+static inline void perf_events_lapic_init(void)	{ }
 #endif
 
-#endif /* _ASM_X86_PERF_COUNTER_H */
+#endif /* _ASM_X86_PERF_EVENT_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
index 8deaada61bc..6fb3c209a7e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@
 #define __NR_preadv		333
 #define __NR_pwritev		334
 #define __NR_rt_tgsigqueueinfo	335
-#define __NR_perf_counter_open	336
+#define __NR_perf_event_open	336
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
index b9f3c60de5f..8d3ad0adbc6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
@@ -659,8 +659,8 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_preadv, sys_preadv)
 __SYSCALL(__NR_pwritev, sys_pwritev)
 #define __NR_rt_tgsigqueueinfo			297
 __SYSCALL(__NR_rt_tgsigqueueinfo, sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo)
-#define __NR_perf_counter_open			298
-__SYSCALL(__NR_perf_counter_open, sys_perf_counter_open)
+#define __NR_perf_event_open			298
+__SYSCALL(__NR_perf_event_open, sys_perf_event_open)
 
 #ifndef __NO_STUBS
 #define __ARCH_WANT_OLD_READDIR