linux/arch
Maynard Johnson 18f2190d79 [POWERPC] cell: Add oprofile support
Add PPU event-based and cycle-based profiling support to Oprofile for Cell.

Oprofile is expected to collect data on all CPUs simultaneously.
However, there is one set of performance counters per node.  There are
two hardware threads or virtual CPUs on each node.  Hence, OProfile must
multiplex in time the performance counter collection on the two virtual
CPUs.

The multiplexing of the performance counters is done by a virtual
counter routine.  Initially, the counters are configured to collect data
on the even CPUs in the system, one CPU per node.  In order to capture
the PC for the virtual CPU when the performance counter interrupt occurs
(the specified number of events between samples has occurred), the even
processors are configured to handle the performance counter interrupts
for their node.  The virtual counter routine is called via a kernel
timer after the virtual sample time.  The routine stops the counters,
saves the current counts, loads the last counts for the other virtual
CPU on the node, sets interrupts to be handled by the other virtual CPU
and restarts the counters, the virtual timer routine is scheduled to run
again.  The virtual sample time is kept relatively small to make sure
sampling occurs on both CPUs on the node with a relatively small
granularity.  Whenever the counters overflow, the performance counter
interrupt is called to collect the PC for the CPU where data is being
collected.

The oprofile driver relies on a firmware RTAS call to setup the debug bus
to route the desired signals to the performance counter hardware to be
counted.  The RTAS call must set the routing registers appropriately in
each of the islands to pass the signals down the debug bus as well as
routing the signals from a particular island onto the bus.  There is a
second firmware RTAS call to reset the debug bus to the non pass thru
state when the counters are not in use.

Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-12-04 20:40:14 +11:00
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alpha [NET]: Alpha checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:01 -08:00
arm Fix misc Kconfig typos 2006-11-30 05:22:59 +01:00
arm26 [PATCH] remove bogus arch-specific syscall exports 2006-10-11 11:17:07 -07:00
avr32 AVR32: Add missing return instruction in __raw_writesb 2006-11-06 14:07:16 +01:00
cris [NET]: Cris checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:02 -08:00
frv [NET]: FRV checksum annotations. 2006-12-02 21:23:03 -08:00
h8300 [NET]: H8300 checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:04 -08:00
i386 Merge branch 'release' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 2006-12-02 08:28:28 -08:00
ia64 [NET]: IA64 checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:05 -08:00
m32r [NET]: M32R checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:06 -08:00
m68k [NET]: M68K checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:07 -08:00
m68knommu [NET]: M68Knommu checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:08 -08:00
mips [NET]: MIPS checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:09 -08:00
parisc [NET]: PARISC checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:10 -08:00
powerpc [POWERPC] cell: Add oprofile support 2006-12-04 20:40:14 +11:00
ppc [POWERPC] 8xx: Off-by-one fixes to SCC parameter RAM definitions 2006-12-04 20:39:40 +11:00
s390 [S390] IRQs too early enabled. 2006-11-06 10:49:02 +01:00
sh [NET]: Kill direct includes of asm/checksum.h 2006-12-02 21:22:59 -08:00
sh64 [NET]: SH64 checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:11 -08:00
sparc Fix misc Kconfig typos 2006-11-30 05:22:59 +01:00
sparc64 PCI: Use pci_generic_prep_mwi on sparc64 2006-12-01 14:36:57 -08:00
um [NET]: UML checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:12 -08:00
v850 [NET]: V850 checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:13 -08:00
x86_64 [NET]: X86_64 checksum annotations and cleanups. 2006-12-02 21:23:14 -08:00
xtensa [PATCH] vmlinux.lds: consolidate initcall sections 2006-10-27 15:34:51 -07:00