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>
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/entry_arch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/entry_arch.h
index 5e3f204..f5693c8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/entry_arch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/entry_arch.h
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
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
similarity index 76%
rename from arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h
rename to arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h
index e7b7c93..ad7ce3f 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_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 @@
/*
- * Fixed-purpose performance counters:
+ * Fixed-purpose performance events:
*/
/*
@@ -87,22 +87,22 @@
/*
* 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 8deaada..6fb3c20 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 b9f3c60..8d3ad0a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
@@ -659,8 +659,8 @@
__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
