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, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/oprof.h b/drivers/oprofile/oprof.h
index 18323650806e..c4406a7366bb 100644
--- a/drivers/oprofile/oprof.h
+++ b/drivers/oprofile/oprof.h
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ extern unsigned long fs_buffer_watershed;
 extern struct oprofile_operations oprofile_ops;
 extern unsigned long oprofile_started;
 extern unsigned long backtrace_depth;
- 
+extern unsigned long timeout_jiffies;
+
 struct super_block;
 struct dentry;
 
@@ -35,5 +36,6 @@ void oprofile_create_files(struct super_block * sb, struct dentry * root);
 void oprofile_timer_init(struct oprofile_operations * ops);
 
 int oprofile_set_backtrace(unsigned long depth);
+int oprofile_set_timeout(unsigned long time);
  
 #endif /* OPROF_H */