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author | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2009-06-17 11:50:04 (GMT) |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-18 09:11:44 (GMT) |
commit | 105988c015943e77092a6568bc5fb7e386df6ccd (patch) | |
tree | bd352fe5e68a66de2e08a8b91c8f8cccf422f346 /arch/powerpc/Kconfig | |
parent | a73c7d84a1975b44c0ebd03c2dec288af1426349 (diff) | |
download | linux-105988c015943e77092a6568bc5fb7e386df6ccd.tar.xz |
perf_counter: powerpc: Enable use of software counters on 32-bit powerpc
This enables the perf_counter subsystem on 32-bit powerpc. Since we
don't have any support for hardware counters on 32-bit powerpc yet,
only software counters can be used.
Besides selecting HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS for 32-bit powerpc as well as
64-bit, the main thing this does is add an implementation of
set_perf_counter_pending(). This needs to arrange for
perf_counter_do_pending() to be called when interrupts are enabled.
Rather than add code to local_irq_restore as 64-bit does, the 32-bit
set_perf_counter_pending() generates an interrupt by setting the
decrementer to 1 so that a decrementer interrupt will become pending
in 1 or 2 timebase ticks (if a decrementer interrupt isn't already
pending). When interrupts are enabled, timer_interrupt() will be
called, and some new code in there calls perf_counter_do_pending().
We use a per-cpu array of flags to indicate whether we need to call
perf_counter_do_pending() or not.
This introduces a couple of new Kconfig symbols: PPC_HAVE_PMU_SUPPORT,
which is selected by processor families for which we have hardware PMU
support (currently only PPC64), and PPC_PERF_CTRS, which enables the
powerpc-specific perf_counter back-end.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
LKML-Reference: <19000.55404.103840.393470@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index 9fb344d..bf6cedf 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ config PPC select HAVE_OPROFILE select HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS if PPC64 select GENERIC_ATOMIC64 if PPC32 + select HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS config EARLY_PRINTK bool |