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2010-03-09Blackfin: dma-mapping: fix thinko in constant optimizationSonic Zhang
Make sure the non-constant version of the dma_sync functions actually complete instead of recursively calling itself forever. Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2010-03-09Blackfin: merge common CAN defines into one headersMike Frysinger
Rather than copy and paste the MMR defines and register layout, consolidate everything in one place. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2010-03-09Blackfin: extend bfin-lq035q1-fb resources to include PPI modeMichael Hennerich
This lets us support the new BF527-EZKIT V2.1 via platform resources tweaks only. Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2010-03-09Blackfin: fix MPU page permission masks overflow when dealing with async memoryBarry Song
Attempting to use the MPU while doing XIP out of parallel flash hooked up to the async memory bus would often result in random crashes as the MPU slowly corrupted memory. The fallout here is that the async banks gain MPU protection from user space too. So any accesses have to go through the mmap() interface rather than just using hardcoded pointers. Signed-off-by: Barry Song <barry.song@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2010-03-09Blackfin: bfin_sport: unify & standardize SPORT masksMike Frysinger
Rather than have every SPORT driver copy & paste things, declare the C structure and MMR bitmasks in one place for everyone to use. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2010-01-06FDPIC: Respect PT_GNU_STACK exec protection markings when creating NOMMU stackMike Frysinger
The current code will load the stack size and protection markings, but then only use the markings in the MMU code path. The NOMMU code path always passes PROT_EXEC to the mmap() call. While this doesn't matter to most people whilst the code is running, it will cause a pointless icache flush when starting every FDPIC application. Typically this icache flush will be of a region on the order of 128KB in size, or may be the entire icache, depending on the facilities available on the CPU. In the case where the arch default behaviour seems to be desired (EXSTACK_DEFAULT), we probe VM_STACK_FLAGS for VM_EXEC to determine whether we should be setting PROT_EXEC or not. For arches that support an MPU (Memory Protection Unit - an MMU without the virtual mapping capability), setting PROT_EXEC or not will make an important difference. It should be noted that this change also affects the executability of the brk region, since ELF-FDPIC has that share with the stack. However, this is probably irrelevant as NOMMU programs aren't likely to use the brk region, preferring instead allocation via mmap(). Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-17Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuildLinus Torvalds
* 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (29 commits) net: fix for utsrelease.h moving to generated gen_init_cpio: fixed fwrite warning kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge kbuild: generate modules.builtin genksyms: properly consider EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}() score: add asm/asm-offsets.h wrapper unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190 kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if available scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root Kbuild: clean up marker net: add net_tstamp.h to headers_install kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated drop explicit include of autoconf.h kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated kbuild: drop include/asm kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH ... Fixed non-conflicting clean merge of modpost.c as per comments from Stephen Rothwell (modpost.c had grown an include of linux/autoconf.h that needed to be changed to generated/autoconf.h)
2009-12-16Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vapier/blackfin * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vapier/blackfin: (88 commits) Blackfin: Convert BUG() to use unreachable() Blackfin: define __NR_recvmmsg Blackfin: drop duplicate sched_clock Blackfin: NOMPU: skip DMA ICPLB hole when it is redundant Blackfin: MPU: add missing __init markings Blackfin: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME Blackfin: kgdb_test: clean up code a bit Blackfin: convert kgdbtest to proc_fops Blackfin: convert cyc2ns() to clocksource_cyc2ns() Blackfin: ip0x: pull in asm/portmux.h for P_xxx defines Blackfin: drop unused ax88180 resources Blackfin: bf537-stamp: add ADF702x network driver resources Blackfin: bf537-stamp: add CAN resources Blackfin: bf537-stamp: add AD5258 i2c address Blackfin: bf537-stamp: add adau1761 i2c address Blackfin: bf537-stamp: add adau1371 i2c address Blackfin: bf537-stamp: add ADP8870 resources Blackfin: bf537-stamp: kill AD714x board-specific Kconfigs Blackfin: bf537-stamp: update ADP5520 resources Blackfin: bf537-stamp: add ADXL346 orientation sensing support ...
2009-12-16Merge branch 'module' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus * 'module' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: modpost: fix segfault with short symbol names module: handle ppc64 relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y Kbuild: clear marker out of modpost module: make MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX into a CONFIG option ARM: unexport symbols used to implement floating point emulation ARM: use unified discard definition in linker script x86: don't export inline function sparc64: don't export static inline pci_ functions
2009-12-16elf: kill USE_ELF_CORE_DUMPChristoph Hellwig
Currently all architectures but microblaze unconditionally define USE_ELF_CORE_DUMP. The microblaze omission seems like an error to me, so let's kill this ifdef and make sure we are the same everywhere. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek@petalogix.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16fbdev: bfin-lq035q1-fb: new Blackfin Landscape LCD EZ-Extender driverMichael Hennerich
Framebuffer driver for the Landscape LCD EZ-Extender (ADZS-BFLLCD-EZEXT) http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=hw:cards:landscape_lcd_ez-extender Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: Convert BUG() to use unreachable()David Daney
Use the new unreachable() macro instead of for(;;); Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: define __NR_recvmmsgMike Frysinger
Commit a2e2725541f added recvmmsg to a bunch of arches (including the Blackfin entry.S), but didn't actually add the new __NR_ define for it. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15module: make MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX into a CONFIG optionAlan Jenkins
The next commit will require the use of MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX in .tmp_exports-asm.S. Currently it is mixed in with C structure definitions in "asm/module.h". Move the definition of this arch option into Kconfig, so it can be easily accessed by any code. This also lets modpost.c use the same definition. Previously modpost relied on a hardcoded list of architectures in mk_elfconfig.c. A build test for blackfin, one of the two MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX archs, showed the generated code was unchanged. vmlinux was identical save for build ids, and an apparently randomized suffix on a single "__key" symbol in the kallsyms data). Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> (blackfin) CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-12-15Blackfin: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_RESUMEBarry Song
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <barry.song@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: convert to asm-generic pci headersBarry Song
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <barry.song@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: io.h: fix random busted whitespaceMike Frysinger
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: dma-mapping.h: flesh out missing DMA mapping functionsBarry Song
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <barry.song@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: support smaller uncached DMA chunks for memory constrained systemsBarry Song
When working with 8 meg systems, forcing a 1 meg DMA chunk heavily cuts into the available resources. So support smaller chunks to better cover needs for these systems. Signed-off-by: Barry Song <barry.song@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: kgdb: punt dead codeSonic Zhang
None of these vars/funcs were being used. Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: punt dead/unused flash mem_init settingsMike Frysinger
I don't think these defines were ever used. At any rate, we have common bit defines for all parts as well as a Kconfig option to declare the EBIU async timings, and no one has really complained about this so far. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: gptimers: use unsigned timer/group idsMike Frysinger
Since we always use these ids as unsigned values, and we have some assert code to make sure they don't exceed a limit, avoid signed issues. Reported-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: comment the FDPIC PTRACE definesMike Frysinger
This matches similar documentation for the FRV FDPIC code. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin/ipipe: update version stampPhilippe Gerum
Signed-off-by: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org> Signed-off-by: Li Yi <yi.li@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin/ipipe: introduce support for CONFIG_MPUPhilippe Gerum
Signed-off-by: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org> Signed-off-by: Li Yi <yi.li@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin/ipipe: fix forward ref to barrier()Philippe Gerum
Signed-off-by: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org> Signed-off-by: Li Yi <yi.li@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin/ipipe: prepare status bitops for SMP supportPhilippe Gerum
Signed-off-by: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org> Signed-off-by: Li Yi <yi.li@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: unify DMA masksMike Frysinger
Every Blackfin variant has the same DMA bit masks, so avoid duplicating them over and over in each mach header. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: unify duplicated power masksMike Frysinger
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: pull in asm/dpmc.h for power definesMike Frysinger
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: convert DMA mutex to an atomic and drop redundant codeMike Frysinger
The DMA channel status field was encoding redundant info wrt the DMA MMR config register, and it was doing an incomplete job of checking all DMA channels (some drivers write directly to the config register). So drop the tristate field in favor of a binary atomic field. This simplifies the code in general, removes the implicit need for sleeping, and forces the suspend code to handle all channels properly. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: push down asm/ includes and out of bfin-global.hMike Frysinger
Avoid including unnecessary headers all the time as well as circular includes with core requirements. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: bf538: add support for extended GPIO banksMichael Hennerich
The GPIOs on ports C/D/E on the BF538/BF539 do not behave the same way as the other ports on the part and the same way as all other Blackfin parts. The MMRs are programmed slightly different and they cannot be used to generate interrupts or wakeup a sleeping system. Since these guys don't fit into the existing code, create a simple gpiolib driver for them. Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: add C define of trace_buffer_init()Graf Yang
Have the C API trace funcs match the assembly API trace funcs. Signed-off-by: Graf Yang <graf.yang@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: calculate on-chip lengths at link time rather than run timeMike Frysinger
Since the link sizes never change at runtime, push the calculation out to the linker script to save some useless calculation costs. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-15Blackfin: convert to generic checksum codeMike Frysinger
The Blackfin port only implemented an optimized version of the csum_tcpudp_nofold function, so convert everything else to the new generic code. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-12-14locking: Convert raw_rwlock functions to arch_rwlockThomas Gleixner
Name space cleanup for rwlock functions. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2009-12-14locking: Convert raw_rwlock to arch_rwlockThomas Gleixner
Not strictly necessary for -rt as -rt does not have non sleeping rwlocks, but it's odd to not have a consistent naming convention. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2009-12-14locking: Convert __raw_spin* functions to arch_spin*Thomas Gleixner
Name space cleanup. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2009-12-14locking: Rename __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED to __ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKEDThomas Gleixner
Further name space cleanup. No functional change Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2009-12-14locking: Convert raw_spinlock to arch_spinlockThomas Gleixner
The raw_spin* namespace was taken by lockdep for the architecture specific implementations. raw_spin_* would be the ideal name space for the spinlocks which are not converted to sleeping locks in preempt-rt. Linus suggested to convert the raw_ to arch_ locks and cleanup the name space instead of using an artifical name like core_spin, atomic_spin or whatever No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2009-12-12kbuild: move asm-offsets.h to include/generatedSam Ravnborg
The simplest method was to add an extra asm-offsets.h file in arch/$ARCH/include/asm that references the generated file. We can now migrate the architectures one-by-one to reference the generated file direct - and when done we can delete the temporary arch/$ARCH/include/asm/asm-offsets.h file. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-10vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semanticsChristoph Hellwig
While Linux provided an O_SYNC flag basically since day 1, it took until Linux 2.4.0-test12pre2 to actually get it implemented for filesystems, since that day we had generic_osync_around with only minor changes and the great "For now, when the user asks for O_SYNC, we'll actually give O_DSYNC" comment. This patch intends to actually give us real O_SYNC semantics in addition to the O_DSYNC semantics. After Jan's O_SYNC patches which are required before this patch it's actually surprisingly simple, we just need to figure out when to set the datasync flag to vfs_fsync_range and when not. This patch renames the existing O_SYNC flag to O_DSYNC while keeping it's numerical value to keep binary compatibility, and adds a new real O_SYNC flag. To guarantee backwards compatiblity it is defined as expanding to both the O_DSYNC and the new additional binary flag (__O_SYNC) to make sure we are backwards-compatible when compiled against the new headers. This also means that all places that don't care about the differences can just check O_DSYNC and get the right behaviour for O_SYNC, too - only places that actuall care need to check __O_SYNC in addition. Drivers and network filesystems have been updated in a fail safe way to always do the full sync magic if O_DSYNC is set. The few places setting O_SYNC for lower layers are kept that way for now to stay failsafe. We enforce that O_DSYNC is set when __O_SYNC is set early in the open path to make sure we always get these sane options. Note that parisc really screwed up their headers as they already define a O_DSYNC that has always been a no-op. We try to repair it by using it for the new O_DSYNC and redefinining O_SYNC to send both the traditional O_SYNC numerical value _and_ the O_DSYNC one. Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-11-26block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a request's ↵Ilya Loginov
pages Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request. So, this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from the dcache or with dcache aliases. The patch fixes this. The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which flush_dcache_page() is a no-op. Every architecture was provided with this flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is equal 1 or do nothing otherwise. See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion on LKML for more information. Signed-off-by: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk> Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-08Blackfin: fix framebuffer mmap bug for nommuThomas Chou
The patch added a special get_unmapped_area for framebuffer which was hooked to the file ops in drivers/video/fbmem.c. This is needed since v2.6.29-rc1 where nommu vma management was updated, and mmap of framebuffer caused kernel BUG panic. You may turn on "Debug the global anon/private NOMMU mapping region tree" config to such message. As Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt said, "To provide shareable character device support, a driver must provide a file->f_op->get_unmapped_area() operation. The mmap() routines will call this to get a proposed address for the mapping." With this change, user space should call mmap for framebuffer using shared map. Or it can try shared map first, then private map if failed. This shared map usage is now consistent between mmu and nommu. The sys_ file may not be a good place for this patch. But there is a similar one for sparc. I tested a similar patch on nios2nommu, though I don't have a blackfin board to test. Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw> Signed-off-by: Graf Yang <graf.yang@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-10-07Blackfin: fix missed cache config renamesGraf Yang
Looks like the big Kconfig cache split/rename missed one spot in the SMP cache lock headers. Signed-off-by: Graf Yang <graf.yang@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-10-07Blackfin: asm/irq.h: pull in mach/anomaly.h for anomaly definesMike Frysinger
The asm/irq.h header uses anomaly defines, but doesn't make sure to explicitly include the anomaly header for them. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-10-07Blackfin: mass clean up of copyright/licensing infoRobin Getz
Bill Gatliff & David Brownell pointed out we were missing some copyrights, and licensing terms in some of the files in ./arch/blackfin, so this fixes things, and cleans them up. It also removes: - verbose GPL text(refer to the top level ./COPYING file) - file names (you are looking at the file) - bug url (it's in the ./MAINTAINERS file) - "or later" on GPL-2, when we did not have that right It also allows some Blackfin-specific assembly files to be under a BSD like license (for people to use them outside of Linux). Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2009-09-23Blackfin: override text/data checking functionsMike Frysinger
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-21perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance EventsIngo Molnar
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>