perf_counter: powerpc: Change how processor-specific back-ends get selected
authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:52:09 +0000 (21:52 +1000)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:11:45 +0000 (11:11 +0200)
commit079b3c569c87819e7a19d9b9f51d4746fc47bf9a
tree63dd236c582eebebb0667a3e5235b02b14c850be
parent448d64f8f4c147db466c549550767cc515a4d34c
perf_counter: powerpc: Change how processor-specific back-ends get selected

At present, the powerpc generic (processor-independent) perf_counter
code has list of processor back-end modules, and at initialization,
it looks at the PVR (processor version register) and has a switch
statement to select a suitable processor-specific back-end.

This is going to become inconvenient as we add more processor-specific
back-ends, so this inverts the order: now each back-end checks whether
it applies to the current processor, and registers itself if so.
Furthermore, instead of looking at the PVR, back-ends now check the
cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type string and match on that.

Lastly, each back-end now specifies a name for itself so the core can
print a nice message when a back-end registers itself.

This doesn't provide any support for unregistering back-ends, but that
wouldn't be hard to do and would allow back-ends to be modules.

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: <19000.55529.762227.518531@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_counter.h
arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/power4-pmu.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/power5+-pmu.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/power5-pmu.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/power6-pmu.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/power7-pmu.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/ppc970-pmu.c