From 0793a61d4df8daeac6492dbf8d2f3e5713caae5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 20:12:29 +0100 Subject: performance counters: core code Implement the core kernel bits of Performance Counters subsystem. The Linux Performance Counter subsystem provides an abstraction of performance counter hardware capabilities. It provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event capabilities on top of those. Performance counters are accessed via special file descriptors. There's one file descriptor per virtual counter used. The special file descriptor is opened via the perf_counter_open() system call: int perf_counter_open(u32 hw_event_type, u32 hw_event_period, u32 record_type, pid_t pid, int cpu); The syscall returns the new fd. The fd can be used via the normal VFS system calls: read() can be used to read the counter, fcntl() can be used to set the blocking mode, etc. Multiple counters can be kept open at a time, and the counters can be poll()ed. See more details in Documentation/perf-counters.txt. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/Makefile') diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile index 19fad003b19..1f184a1dc40 100644 --- a/kernel/Makefile +++ b/kernel/Makefile @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT) += dma-coherent.o obj-$(CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER) += trace/ obj-$(CONFIG_TRACING) += trace/ obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += sched_cpupri.o +obj-$(CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS) += perf_counter.o ifneq ($(CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER),y) # According to Alan Modra , the -fno-omit-frame-pointer is -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2 From 56449f437add737a1e5e1cb7e00f63ac8ead1938 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:24:36 +0200 Subject: tracing: make the trace clocks available generally Jeremy Fitzhardinge reported this build failure: LD .tmp_vmlinux1 arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: In function `ds_take_timestamp': git/linux/arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:1380: undefined reference to `trace_clock_global' git/linux/arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:1380: undefined reference to `trace_clock_global' Which is due to !CONFIG_TRACING && CONFIG_X86_DS=y. Expose the trace clock code to CONFIG_X86_DS as well. [ Unfortunately librarizing doesnt work well - ancient architectures with no raw_local_irq_save() primitive break the build. ] Reported-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge LKML-Reference: <49E4413F.7070700@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/Makefile | 1 + kernel/trace/Makefile | 7 ++++++- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/Makefile') diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile index bab1dffe37e..c8e1be5f0b0 100644 --- a/kernel/Makefile +++ b/kernel/Makefile @@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_LATENCYTOP) += latencytop.o obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT) += dma-coherent.o obj-$(CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER) += trace/ obj-$(CONFIG_TRACING) += trace/ +obj-$(CONFIG_X86_DS) += trace/ obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += sched_cpupri.o obj-$(CONFIG_SLOW_WORK) += slow-work.o diff --git a/kernel/trace/Makefile b/kernel/trace/Makefile index 2630f5121ec..ecc671e9f14 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Makefile +++ b/kernel/trace/Makefile @@ -15,11 +15,16 @@ ifdef CONFIG_TRACING_BRANCHES KBUILD_CFLAGS += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING endif +# +# Make the trace clocks available generally: it's infrastructure +# relied on by ptrace for example: +# +obj-y += trace_clock.o + obj-$(CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER) += libftrace.o obj-$(CONFIG_RING_BUFFER) += ring_buffer.o obj-$(CONFIG_TRACING) += trace.o -obj-$(CONFIG_TRACING) += trace_clock.o obj-$(CONFIG_TRACING) += trace_output.o obj-$(CONFIG_TRACING) += trace_stat.o obj-$(CONFIG_TRACING) += trace_printk.o -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2