We can check using strcmp, most DSOs don't start with '[' so the
test is cheap enough and we had to test it there anyway since
when reading perf.data files we weren't calling the routine that
created this global variable and thus weren't setting it as
"loaded", which was causing a bogus:

  Failed to open [vdso], continuing without symbols

Message as the first line of 'perf report'.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

While debugging a problem reported by Pekka Enberg by printing
the IP and all the maps for a thread when we don't find a map
for an IP I noticed that dso__load_sym needs to fixup these
extra maps it creates to hold symbols in different ELF sections
than the main kernel one.

Now we're back showing things like:

[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report | grep vsyscall
     0.02%             mutt  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn  [.] vread_hpet
     0.01%            named  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn  [.] vread_hpet
     0.01%   NetworkManager  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn  [.] vread_hpet
     0.01%         gconfd-2  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_0   [.] vgettimeofday
     0.01%  hald-addon-rfki  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn  [.] vread_hpet
     0.00%      dbus-daemon  [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn  [.] vread_hpet
[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

I noticed while writing the first test in 'perf regtest' that to
just test the symbol handling routines one needs to create a
perf session, that is a layer centered on a perf.data file,
events, etc, so I untied these layers.

This reduces the complexity for the users as the number of
parameters to most of the symbols and session APIs now was
reduced while not adding more state to all the map instances by
only having data that is needed to split the kernel (kallsyms
and ELF symtab sections) maps and do vmlinux relocation on the
main kernel map.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Open perf data file with O_LARGEFILE flag since its size is
easily larger that 2G.

For example:

 # rm -rf perf.data
 # ./perf kmem record sleep 300

 [ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 3142.147 MB perf.data
 (~137282513 samples) ]

 # ll -h perf.data
 -rw------- 1 root root 3.1G .....
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B68F32A.9040203@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Fix up a few small stylistic details:

 - use consistent vertical spacing/alignment
 - remove line80 artifacts
 - group some global variables better
 - remove dead code

Plus rename 'prof' to 'report' to make it more in line with other
tools, and remove the line/file keying as we really want to use
IPs like the other tools do.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-12-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Adding new subcommand "perf lock" to perf.

I have a lot of remaining ToDos, but for now perf lock can
already provide minimal functionality for analyzing lock
statistics.
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-12-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add wait time and lock identification details.
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-11-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
[ removed the file/line bits as we can do that better via IPs ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

linux/hash.h, hash header of kernel, is also useful for perf.

util/include/linuxhash.h includes linux/hash.h, so we can use
hash facilities (e.g. hash_long()) in perf now.
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-3-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch is required to test the next patch for perf lock.

At 064739bc ,
support for the modifier "__data_loc" of format is added.

But, when I wanted to parse format of lock_acquired (or some
event else), raw_field_ptr() did not returned correct pointer.

So I modified raw_field_ptr() like this patch. Then
raw_field_ptr() works well.
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-2-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
[ v3: fixed minor stylistic detail ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This reverts commit f5a2c3dc.

This patch is required for making "perf lock rec" work.
The commit f5a2c3dc changes write_event() of builtin-record.c
. And changed write_event() sometimes doesn't stop with perf
lock rec.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
[ that commit also causes perf record to not be Ctrl-C-able,
  and it's concetually wrong to parse the data at record time
  (unconditionally - even when not needed), as we eventually
  want to be able to do zero-copy recording, at least for
  non-archive recordings.  ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Tell git to ignore perf-archive.
Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Checked with:
./../scripts/checkpatch.pl --terse --file perf.c

 perf.c: 51: ERROR: open brace '{' following function declarations go on the next line
 perf.c: 73: ERROR: "foo*** bar" should be "foo ***bar"
 perf.c:112: ERROR: space prohibited before that close parenthesis ')'
 perf.c:127: ERROR: space prohibited before that close parenthesis ')'
 perf.c:171: ERROR: "foo** bar" should be "foo **bar"
 perf.c:213: ERROR: "(foo*)" should be "(foo *)"
 perf.c:216: ERROR: "(foo*)" should be "(foo *)"
 perf.c:217: ERROR: space required before that '*' (ctx:OxV)
 perf.c:452: ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL
 perf.c:453: ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-7-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge reason: We want to queue up a dependent patch. Also update to
              later -rc's.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Removing one extra step needed in the tools that need this,
fixing a bug in 'perf probe' where this was not being done.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

To make it clear and allow for direct usage by, for instance,
regression test suites.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

So that we can call it directly from regression tests, and also
to reduce the size of dso__load_kernel_sym(), making it more
clear.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

As we do lazy loading of symtabs we only will know if the
specified vmlinux file is invalid when we actually have a hit in
kernel space and then try to load it. So if we get kernel hits
and there are _no_ symbols in the DSO backing the kernel map,
bail out.
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

One problem with frequency driven counters is that we cannot
predict the rate at which they trigger, therefore we have to
start them at period=1, this causes a ramp up effect. However,
if we fail to propagate the stable state on fork each new child
will have to ramp up again. This can lead to significant
artifacts in sample data.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1264752266.4283.2121.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

At enable time the counter might still have a ->idx pointing to
a previously occupied location that might now be taken by
another event. Resetting the counter at that location with data
from this event will destroy the other counter's count.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100127221122.261477183@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The new Intel documentation includes Westmere arch specific
event maps that are significantly different from the Nehalem
ones. Add support for this generation.

Found the CPUID model numbers on wikipedia.

Also ammend some Nehalem constraints, spotted those when looking
for the differences between Nehalem and Westmere.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100127221122.151865645@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Put the recursion avoidance code in the generic hook instead of
replicating it in each implementation.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100127221122.057507285@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Since constraints are specified on the event number, not number
and unit mask shorten the constraint masks so that we'll
actually match something.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100127221121.967610372@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Share the meat of the x86_pmu_disable() code with hw_perf_enable().

Also remove the barrier() from that code, since I could not convince
myself we actually need it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

- Remove stray debug code
 - Improve ugly macros a bit
 - Remove some whitespace damage
 - (Also fix up some accumulated damage in perf_event.h)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>

x86_pmu_disable() removes the event from the cpuc->event_list[], however
since an event can only be on that list once, stop looking after we found
it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Remove num from the fast path and save a few ops.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155536.056430539@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add a weight member to the constraint structure and avoid recomputing the
weight at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.963944926@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Instead of copying bitmasks around, pass pointers to the constraint
structure.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.887853503@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Provide compile time versions of hweight.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.797688466@chello.nl>
[ Remove some whitespace damage while we are at it ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Introduce INTEL_EVENT_CONSTRAINT and FIXED_EVENT_CONSTRAINT to reduce
some line length and typing work.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.688730371@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We need this to be u64 for direct assigment, but the bitmask functions
all work on unsigned long, leading to cast heaven, solve this by using a
union.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.595961269@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Constraints gets defined an u64 but in long quantities and then cast to
long.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.504916780@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

GCC was complaining the stack usage was too large, so allocate the
structure.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.411197266@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Implement correct fastpath scheduling, i.e., reuse previous assignment.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[ split from larger patch]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4b588464.1818d00a.4456.383b@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch improves event scheduling by maximizing the use of PMU
registers regardless of the order in which events are created in a group.

The algorithm takes into account the list of counter constraints for each
event. It assigns events to counters from the most constrained, i.e.,
works on only one counter, to the least constrained, i.e., works on any
counter.

Intel Fixed counter events and the BTS special event are also handled via
this algorithm which is designed to be fairly generic.

The patch also updates the validation of an event to use the scheduling
algorithm. This will cause early failure in perf_event_open().

The 2nd version of this patch follows the model used by PPC, by running
the scheduling algorithm and the actual assignment separately. Actual
assignment takes place in hw_perf_enable() whereas scheduling is
implemented in hw_perf_group_sched_in() and x86_pmu_enable().
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
[ fixup whitespace and style nits as well as adding is_x86_event() ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4b5430c6.0f975e0a.1bf9.ffff85fe@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Processing of debug exceptions in do_debug() can stop if it
originated from a hw-breakpoint exception by returning NOTIFY_STOP
in most cases.

But for certain cases such as:

a) user-space breakpoints with pending SIGTRAP signal delivery (as
in the case of ptrace induced breakpoints).

b) exceptions due to other causes than breakpoints

We will continue to process the exception by returning NOTIFY_DONE.
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100128111415.GC13935@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

Clear the reserved bits from the stored copy of debug status
register (DR6).
This will help easy bitwise operations such as quick testing
of a debug event origin.
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <20100128111401.GB13935@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

The return values of the kprobe's tracing functions are meaningless,
lets remove these.
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B60E9A3.2040505@cn.fujitsu.com>
[fweisbec@gmail: whitespace fixes, drop useless void returns in end
of functions]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

Introduce ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() and ftrace_perf_buf_submit() to
gather the common code that operates on raw events sampling buffer.
This cleans up redundant code between regular trace events, syscall
events and kprobe events.

Changelog v1->v2:
- Rename function name as per Masami and Frederic's suggestion
- Add __kprobes for ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() and make
  ftrace_perf_buf_submit() inline as per Masami's suggestion
- Export ftrace_perf_buf_prepare since modules will use it
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B60E92D.9000808@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

When running perf across all cpus with backtracing (-a -g), sometimes we
get samples without associated backtraces:

    23.44%         init  [kernel]                     [k] restore
    11.46%         init                       eeba0c  [k] 0x00000000eeba0c
     6.77%      swapper  [kernel]                     [k] .perf_ctx_adjust_freq
     5.73%         init  [kernel]                     [k] .__trace_hcall_entry
     4.69%         perf  libc-2.9.so                  [.] 0x0000000006bb8c
                       |
                       |--11.11%-- 0xfffa941bbbc

It turns out the backtrace code has a check for the idle task and the IP
sampling does not. This creates problems when profiling an interrupt
heavy workload (in my case 10Gbit ethernet) since we get no backtraces
for interrupts received while idle (ie most of the workload).

Right now x86 and sh check that current is not NULL, which should never
happen so remove that too.

Idle task's exclusion must be performed from the core code, on top
of perf_event_attr:exclude_idle.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100118054707.GT12666@kryten>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>