Oprofile Multiplexing Patch

This patch introduces multiplexing support for the Oprofile kernel
module. It basically adds a new function pointer in oprofile_operator
allowing each architecture to supply its callback to switch between
different sets of event when the timer expires. Userspace tools can
modify the time slice through /dev/oprofile/time_slice.

It also modifies the number of counters exposed to the userspace through
/dev/oprofile. For example, the number of counters for AMD CPUs are
changed to 32 and multiplexed in the sets of 4.

Signed-off-by: Jason Yeh <jason.yeh@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: oprofile-list <oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/oprofile/op_counter.h b/arch/x86/oprofile/op_counter.h
index 2880b15c4675..786d6e01cf7f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/oprofile/op_counter.h
+++ b/arch/x86/oprofile/op_counter.h
@@ -10,13 +10,14 @@
 #ifndef OP_COUNTER_H
 #define OP_COUNTER_H
  
-#define OP_MAX_COUNTER 8
+#define OP_MAX_COUNTER 32
  
 /* Per-perfctr configuration as set via
  * oprofilefs.
  */
 struct op_counter_config {
         unsigned long count;
+                unsigned long save_count_low;
         unsigned long enabled;
         unsigned long event;
         unsigned long kernel;