linux/arch/x86/kernel
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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acpi Merge branch 'for-ingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-sfi-2.6 into x86/apic 2009-08-29 09:31:47 +02:00
apic perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
cpu perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
.gitignore
alternative.c Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-14 07:57:32 -07:00
amd_iommu_init.c Merge branch 'amd-iommu/passthrough' into amd-iommu/2.6.32 2009-09-03 16:34:23 +02:00
amd_iommu.c Merge branch 'amd-iommu/pagetable' into amd-iommu/2.6.32 2009-09-03 17:14:57 +02:00
aperture_64.c kmemleak: Ignore the aperture memory hole on x86_64 2009-09-01 11:12:32 +01:00
apm_32.c Merge commit 'origin/x86/urgent' into x86/asm 2009-08-25 15:40:29 -07:00
asm-offsets_32.c
asm-offsets_64.c tracing: Define NR_syscalls for x86_64 2009-08-26 21:29:58 +02:00
asm-offsets.c
audit_64.c
bios_uv.c
bootflag.c
check.c
cpuid.c Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissions 2009-09-19 12:50:38 -07:00
crash_dump_32.c
crash_dump_64.c
crash.c
doublefault_32.c x86: Use get_desc_base() 2009-07-19 18:27:51 +02:00
ds_selftest.c
ds_selftest.h
ds.c
dumpstack_32.c
dumpstack_64.c
dumpstack.c x86: Remove duplicated #include 2009-07-11 10:17:08 +02:00
dumpstack.h
e820.c Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-18 14:05:47 -07:00
early_printk.c
early-quirks.c
efi_32.c
efi_64.c x86: Make 64-bit efi_ioremap use ioremap on MMIO regions 2009-08-03 13:34:25 -07:00
efi_stub_32.S
efi_stub_64.S
efi.c x86: Move get/set_wallclock to x86_platform_ops 2009-09-16 14:34:50 +02:00
entry_32.S
entry_64.S perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
ftrace.c tracing: Convert event tracing code to use NR_syscalls 2009-08-26 21:30:02 +02:00
geode_32.c
head32.c x86: Add Moorestown early detection 2009-08-31 11:09:40 +02:00
head64.c x86: Add early platform detection 2009-08-31 11:09:40 +02:00
head_32.S Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-18 14:05:47 -07:00
head_64.S
head.c
hpet.c
i386_ksyms_32.c
i387.c
i8237.c
i8253.c x86: Do not unregister PIT clocksource on PIT oneshot setup/shutdown 2009-08-21 21:13:37 +02:00
i8259.c
init_task.c
io_delay.c
ioport.c
irq_32.c x86: Use printk_once() 2009-08-09 22:28:34 +02:00
irq_64.c
irq.c x86: mce: Rename CONFIG_X86_NEW_MCE to CONFIG_X86_MCE 2009-07-09 18:39:47 -07:00
irqinit.c perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
k8.c
kdebugfs.c
kgdb.c
kprobes.c
kvm.c KVM guest: do not batch pte updates from interrupt context 2009-09-10 18:10:50 +03:00
kvmclock.c Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-18 14:05:47 -07:00
ldt.c
machine_kexec_32.c
machine_kexec_64.c
Makefile Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-18 14:05:47 -07:00
mca_32.c
mfgpt_32.c x86: geode: Mark mfgpt irq IRQF_TIMER to prevent resume failure 2009-07-24 08:42:52 +02:00
microcode_amd.c
microcode_core.c Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissions 2009-09-19 12:50:38 -07:00
microcode_intel.c
mmconf-fam10h_64.c
module.c
mpparse.c Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-18 14:05:47 -07:00
mrst.c x86: Add Moorestown early detection 2009-08-31 11:09:40 +02:00
msr.c Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissions 2009-09-19 12:50:38 -07:00
olpc.c
paravirt_patch_32.c
paravirt_patch_64.c
paravirt-spinlocks.c
paravirt.c Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-18 14:05:47 -07:00
pci-calgary_64.c
pci-dma.c Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2009-09-16 07:49:54 -07:00
pci-gart_64.c x86: replace is_buffer_dma_capable() with dma_capable 2009-07-28 14:19:19 +09:00
pci-nommu.c dma-ops: Remove flush_write_buffers() in dma-mapping-common.h 2009-08-10 09:34:57 +02:00
pci-swiotlb.c x86: remove unused swiotlb_phys_to_bus() and swiotlb_bus_to_phys() 2009-07-28 14:19:20 +09:00
pcspeaker.c
pmtimer_64.c
probe_roms_32.c
process_32.c Merge branch 'x86-percpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-14 08:01:28 -07:00
process_64.c Merge branch 'x86-percpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-14 08:01:28 -07:00
process.c tracing, x86, cpuidle: Move the end point of a C state in the power tracer 2009-09-19 18:57:52 +02:00
ptrace.c tracing: Create generic syscall TRACE_EVENTs 2009-08-26 00:41:48 +02:00
pvclock.c x86: Fix warning in pvclock.c 2009-07-14 16:25:05 +02:00
quirks.c x86/PCI: pci quirks, fix pci refcounting 2009-09-09 14:11:02 -07:00
reboot_fixups_32.c
reboot.c Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc8' into x86/txt 2009-09-02 08:17:56 +02:00
relocate_kernel_32.S
relocate_kernel_64.S
rtc.c Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-18 14:05:47 -07:00
scx200_32.c
setup_percpu.c x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA 2009-08-14 15:00:52 +09:00
setup.c Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-18 14:05:47 -07:00
signal.c Merge branch 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-17 21:07:08 -07:00
smp.c
smpboot.c Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-18 14:05:47 -07:00
stacktrace.c
step.c x86: Use get_desc_base() 2009-07-19 18:27:51 +02:00
sys_i386_32.c
sys_x86_64.c tracing: Convert x86_64 mmap and uname to use DEFINE_SYSCALL 2009-08-11 20:35:29 +02:00
syscall_64.c
syscall_table_32.S perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
tboot.c x86, intel_txt: clean up the impact on generic code, unbreak non-x86 2009-09-01 18:25:07 -07:00
tce_64.c
test_nx.c
test_rodata.c
time.c x86: platform: Fix section annotations 2009-09-16 10:21:10 +02:00
tlb_uv.c x86: uv: Clean up uv_ptc_init(), use proc_create() 2009-08-24 12:26:46 +02:00
tls.c
tls.h
topology.c
trampoline_32.S
trampoline_64.S
trampoline.c
traps.c includecheck fix: x86, traps.c 2009-09-20 16:00:18 +05:30
tsc_sync.c
tsc.c Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-18 14:05:47 -07:00
uv_irq.c
uv_sysfs.c
uv_time.c
verify_cpu_64.S
visws_quirks.c x86: Add timer_init to x86_init_ops 2009-08-31 09:35:46 +02:00
vm86_32.c
vmi_32.c x86: Move get/set_wallclock to x86_platform_ops 2009-09-16 14:34:50 +02:00
vmiclock_32.c x86: Move tsc_calibration to x86_init_ops 2009-08-31 09:35:47 +02:00
vmlinux.lds.S Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2009-09-15 09:39:44 -07:00
vsmp_64.c
vsyscall_64.c time: Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE 2009-08-21 21:43:46 +02:00
x86_init.c x86: Move get/set_wallclock to x86_platform_ops 2009-09-16 14:34:50 +02:00
x8664_ksyms_64.c
xsave.c