linux-sg2042/arch/x86/mm
Ingo Molnar cdd6c482c9 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>
2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
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kmemcheck includecheck fix: x86, shadow.c 2009-09-20 16:00:38 +05:30
Makefile x86: split __phys_addr out into separate file 2009-09-10 11:48:55 -07:00
dump_pagetables.c x86: remove (null) in /sys kernel_page_tables 2009-04-14 11:50:22 +02:00
extable.c x86: uaccess: introduce try and catch framework 2009-01-23 17:17:36 -08:00
fault.c perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
gup.c Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-06-20 11:29:32 -07:00
highmem_32.c Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2009-09-14 17:43:43 -07:00
hugetlbpage.c x86: ignore VM_LOCKED when determining if hugetlb-backed page tables can be shared or not 2009-05-29 08:40:03 -07:00
init.c x86: Declare check_efer() before it gets used 2009-07-01 16:52:54 +02:00
init_32.c Merge commit 'linus/master' into HEAD 2009-06-15 15:50:49 +02:00
init_64.c x86: Fix an incorrect argument of reserve_bootmem() 2009-08-24 20:22:55 +02:00
iomap_32.c x86, pat: Add PAT reserve free to io_mapping* APIs 2009-08-26 15:41:16 -07:00
ioremap.c Merge branch 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-15 09:19:38 -07:00
k8topology_64.c x86: k8 numa register active regions later 2009-01-06 13:21:21 +01:00
kmmio.c Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-05-07 11:17:34 +02:00
memtest.c x86: memtest: use pointers of equal type for comparison 2009-06-11 16:26:35 +02:00
mmap.c x86: Increase MIN_GAP to include randomized stack 2009-09-10 17:00:12 -07:00
mmio-mod.c tracing: x86, mmiotrace: only register for die notifier when tracer active 2009-04-29 11:33:34 +02:00
numa.c cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t 2009-03-13 14:35:31 +01:00
numa_32.c x86: mm/numa_32.c calculate_numa_remap_pages should use __init 2009-04-17 22:43:13 +02:00
numa_64.c x86, mm: Fix node_possible_map logic 2009-05-18 09:21:04 +02:00
pageattr-test.c x86: make sure the CPA test code's use of _PAGE_UNUSED1 is obvious 2008-09-05 17:09:57 +02:00
pageattr.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2009-09-15 09:39:44 -07:00
pat.c Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-17 20:58:11 -07:00
pf_in.c x86: fix mmiotrace 8-bit register decoding 2008-10-14 10:33:50 +02:00
pf_in.h x86 mmiotrace: move files into arch/x86/mm/. 2008-05-24 11:25:37 +02:00
pgtable.c x86, 32-bit: Fix double accounting in reserve_top_address() 2009-08-04 16:27:29 +02:00
pgtable_32.c x86/32: no need to use set_pte_present in set_pte_vaddr 2009-03-19 14:04:18 +01:00
physaddr.c x86: split __phys_addr out into separate file 2009-09-10 11:48:55 -07:00
physaddr.h x86: split __phys_addr out into separate file 2009-09-10 11:48:55 -07:00
srat_32.c x86: Decrease the level of some NUMA messages to KERN_DEBUG 2009-09-06 06:32:23 +02:00
srat_64.c x86-64: Fix bad_srat() to clear all state 2009-07-21 15:20:01 -07:00
testmmiotrace.c x86: add far read test to testmmiotrace 2009-03-02 10:20:35 +01:00
tlb.c x86: don't call '->send_IPI_mask()' with an empty mask 2009-08-21 09:48:10 -07:00