The --host option certainly enables host-data collection.

Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317816084-18026-5-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

As script_spec__delete() frees given struct script_spec it should not be
called if we failed to allocate the struct. Also it's the only caller of
the function, we can get rid of the function itself.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1325000151-4463-4-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

The 'buf' should be freed when symbol wasn't found too.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1325000151-4463-3-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

The get_ratio_color() returns appropriate color string based on @ratio.
It helps reducing code duplication.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1325000151-4463-2-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

The 'size' cannot be 0 because it was set to 8 on the above line in case
it was 0 and never changed.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1325000151-4463-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lfckuwbl8m1ykb7t9ydsxe4r@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The current perf scripting facility only supports tracepoints. This
patch implements a generic perl handler to support other events than
tracepoints too.

This patch introduces a function process_event() that is called by perf
for each sample. The function is called with byte streams as arguments
containing information about the event, its attributes, the sample and
raw data. Perl's unpack() function can easily be used for byte decoding.
The following is the default implementation for process_event() that can
also be generated with perf script:

 # Packed byte string args of process_event():
 #
 # $event:       union perf_event        util/event.h
 # $attr:        struct perf_event_attr  linux/perf_event.h
 # $sample:      struct perf_sample      util/event.h
 # $raw_data:    perf_sample->raw_data   util/event.h

 sub process_event
 {
         my ($event, $attr, $sample, $raw_data) = @_;

         my @event       = unpack("LSS", $event);
         my @attr        = unpack("LLQQQQQLLQQ", $attr);
         my @sample      = unpack("QLLQQQQQLL", $sample);
         my @raw_data    = unpack("C*", $raw_data);

         use Data::Dumper;
         print Dumper \@event, \@attr, \@sample, \@raw_data;
 }

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323969824-9711-4-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.comSigned-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

This patch introduces the for_each_set_bit() macro and modifies feature
implementation to use it.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-8-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.comSigned-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

The features HEADER_TRACE_INFO and HEADER_BUILD_ID are handled
different when writing the feature section. All other features are
simply disabled on failure and writing the section goes on without
returning an error. There is no reason for these special cases. This
patch unifies handling of the features.

This should be ok since all features can be parsed independently.
Offset and size of a feature's block is stored in struct perf_file_
section right after the data block of perf.data (see perf_session__
write_header()). Thus, if a feature does not exist then other features
can be processed anyway.

Also moving special code for HEADER_BUILD_ID out to write_build_id().

v2:
* perf record throws an error now if buildids may not be generated,
  which can be disabled with the --no-buildid option.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-6-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.comSigned-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

The default input file for perf report is not handled the same way as
perf record does it for its output file. This leads to unexpected
behavior of perf report, etc. E.g.:

 # perf record -a -e cpu-cycles sleep 2 | perf report | cat
 failed to open perf.data: No such file or directory  (try 'perf record' first)

While perf record writes to a fifo, perf report expects perf.data to be
read. This patch changes this to accept fifos as input file.

Applies to the following commands:

 perf annotate
 perf buildid-list
 perf evlist
 perf kmem
 perf lock
 perf report
 perf sched
 perf script
 perf timechart

Also fixes char const* -> const char* type declaration for filename
strings.

v2:
* Prevent potential null pointer access to input_name in
  builtin-report.c. Needed due to removal of patch "perf report: Setup
  browser if stdout is a pipe"

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-5-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.comSigned-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Needed for later changes. No modified functionality.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-4-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.comSigned-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

If filename is NULL there is an out-of-bound access to struct
perf_session if it would be used with perf_session__open(). Shouldn't
actually happen in current implementation as filename is always !NULL.
Fixing this by always null-terminating filename.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-3-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.comSigned-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

A feature may be unknown if perf.data is created and parsed on different
perf tool versions. This should not stop the header to be processed,
instead continue processing it.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.comSigned-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Reducing duplication and line size by extending function names for
print and write from a single name.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323248577-11268-7-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.comSigned-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Now that we automatically point users at it, let's provide them some
guidance so that they hopefully don't just get mysterious EINVAL's
from the kernel.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324301972-22740-4-git-send-email-nelhage@nelhage.comSigned-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com>
[ committer note: Made it work after 50a682ce ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

This failure is most likely due to running up against the
kernel.perf_event_mlock_kb sysctl, so we can tell the user what to do to
fix the issue.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324301972-22740-3-git-send-email-nelhage@nelhage.comSigned-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

I get such truncated annotation results in 'perf top':

         :        Disassembly of section .text:                                                   ▒
         :                                                                                        ▒
         :        ffffffff810966a8 <nr_iowait_cpu>:                                               ▒
    4.94 :        ffffffff810966a8:       movslq %edi,%rdi                                        ▒
    3.70 :        ffffffff810966ab:       mov    $0x13700,%rax                                    ▒
    0.00 :        ffffffff810966b2:       add    -0x7e32cb00(,%rdi,8),%rax                        ▒
    8.64 :        ffffffff810966ba:       mov    0x7e0(%rax),%eax                                 ▒
   82.72 :        ffffffff810966c0:       cltq                                                    ▒

Note the missing 'retq' which is there in the original function:

ffffffff810966a8 <nr_iowait_cpu>:
ffffffff810966a8:       48 63 ff                movslq %edi,%rdi
ffffffff810966ab:       48 c7 c0 00 37 01 00    mov    $0x13700,%rax
ffffffff810966b2:       48 03 04 fd 00 35 cd    add    -0x7e32cb00(,%rdi,8),%rax
ffffffff810966b9:       81
ffffffff810966ba:       8b 80 e0 07 00 00       mov    0x7e0(%rax),%eax
ffffffff810966c0:       48 98                   cltq
ffffffff810966c2:       c3                      retq

ffffffff810966c3 <this_cpu_load>:

I'm using a fairly recent binutils:

  GNU objdump version 2.21.51.0.6-2.fc16 20110118

AFAICS the bug is simply that sym->end points to the last byte
of the symbol in question - while objdump's --stop-address
expects the last byte plus 1 to disassemble the full range.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111223130804.GA24305@elte.huSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

This allows the thread name to be dispalyed when dumping
events:
           myapp 25118 [000] 450385.538815: context-switches ...
    myapp:worker 25119 [000] 450385.538894: context-switches ...

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324578603-12762-4-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.comSigned-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

This handles multithreaded processes with named threads when doing
system wide profiling: the comm for each thread is looked up allowing
them to be different from the thread group leader.

v2:
- fixed sizeof arg to perf_event__get_comm_tgid

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324578603-12762-3-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.comSigned-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf does not properly handle monitoring of processes with named threads.
For example:

$ ps -C myapp -L
  PID   LWP TTY          TIME CMD
25118 25118 ?        00:00:00 myapp
25118 25119 ?        00:00:00 myapp:worker

perf record -e cs -c 1 -fo /tmp/perf.data -p 25118 -- sleep 10
perf report --stdio -i /tmp/perf.data
   100.00%  myapp:worker  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] perf_event_task_sched_out

The process name is set to the name of the last thread it finds for the
process.

The Problem:
perf-top and perf-record both create a thread_map of threads to be
monitored. That map is used in perf_event__synthesize_thread_map which
loops over the entries in thread_map and calls __event__synthesize_thread
to generate COMM and MMAP events.

__event__synthesize_thread calls perf_event__synthesize_comm which opens
/proc/pid/status, reads the name of the task and its thread group id.
That's all fine. The problem is that it then reads /proc/pid/task and
generates COMM events for each task it finds - but using the name found
in /proc/pid/status where pid is the thread of interest.

The end result (looping over thread_map + synthesizing comm events for
each thread each time) means the name of the last thread processed sets
the name for all threads in the process - which is not good for
multithreaded processes with named threads.

The Fix:
perf_event__synthesize_comm has an input argument (full) that decides
whether to process task entries for each pid it is passed. It currently
never set to 0 (perf_event__synthesize_comm has a single caller and it
always passes the value 1). Let's fix that.

Add the full input argument to __event__synthesize_thread which passes
it to perf_event__synthesize_comm. For thread/process monitoring set full
to 0 which means COMM and MMAP events are only generated for the pid
passed to it. For system wide monitoring set full to 1 so that COMM events
are generated for all threads in a process.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324578603-12762-2-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.comSigned-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf report does not take a command from command line.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323703017-6060-8-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Add new generic hw event: ref-cycles, which maps to
PERF_HW_COUNT_REF_CPUCYCLES:

 $ perf stat -e ref-cycles ls
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323559734-3488-5-git-send-email-eranian@google.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add event maps for Intel x86 processors (with architected PMU v2 or later).

On AMD, there is frequency scaling but no Turbo. There is no core
cycle event not subject to frequency scaling, therefore we do not
provide a mapping.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323559734-3488-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This event counts the number of reference core cpu cycles.
Reference means that the event increments at a constant rate which
is not subject to core CPU frequency adjustments. The event may
not count when the processor is in halted (low power) state.
As such, it may not be equivalent to wall clock time. However,
when the processor is not halted state, the event keeps
a constant correlation with wall clock time.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323559734-3488-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch adds the encoding and definitions necessary for the
unhalted_reference_cycles event avaialble since Intel Core 2 processors.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323559734-3488-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge reason: Update with the latest fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Adding automated tests for event parsing to include testing for modifier
and ',' operator.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323963039-7602-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
[ committer note: Remove some tests that need group_leader & bison patchkits ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Use local variable 'dso' to reduce typing a bit and rearrange the if
condition. Also NULL check of al->map in the condition is not necessary.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323703017-6060-7-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

These files are part of PERF not GIT although they're come from there :)

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323784323-2150-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

After freeing each elements of the @values->value, we should free itself
too.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323703017-6060-5-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

The order of freeing comm_list and dso_list should be reversed.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323703017-6060-4-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

The 'path' variable is set on a upper line, don't need to do it again.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323703017-6060-3-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

On failure, perf_evlist__mmap_per_{cpu,thread} will try to munmap()
every map that doesn't have a NULL base. This will fail with EINVAL if
one of them has base == MAP_FAILED, clobbering errno, so that
perf_evlist__map will return EINVAL on any failure regardless of the
root cause.

Fix this by resetting failed maps to a NULL base.
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324301972-22740-2-git-send-email-nelhage@nelhage.comSigned-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

The '--call-graph' command line option can receive undocumented optional
print_limit argument. Besides, use strtoul() to parse the option since
its type is u32.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323703017-6060-2-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Memory in struct perf_sample is not fully initialized during parsing.
Depending on sampling data some parts may left unchanged. Zero out
struct perf_sample first to avoid access to uninitialized memory.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323966762-8574-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.comSigned-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

The problem is that when SAMPLE_PERIOD is not set, the kernel generates
a number of samples in proportion to an event's period. Number of these
samples may be too big and the kernel throttles all samples above a
defined limit.

E.g.: I want to trace when a process sleeps. I created a process which
sleeps for 1ms and for 4ms.  perf got 100 events in both cases.

swapper 0 [000] 1141.371830: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=1386750 [ns]
swapper 0 [000] 1141.369444: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=4499585 [ns]

In the first case a kernel want to send 4499585 events and in the second
case it wants to send 1386750 events.  perf-reports shows that process
sleeps in both places equal time.

Instead of this we can get only one sample with an attribute period. As
result we have less data transferring between kernel and user-space and
we avoid throttling of samples.

The patch "events: Don't divide events if it has field period" added a
kernel part of this functionality.
Acked-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: devel@openvz.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324391565-1369947-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.orgSigned-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Merge branch 'for-tip' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile into perf/core

This reverts commit eb1711bb.

It blows up the i915 seqno tracking, resulting in the

	BUG_ON(seqno == 0);

in i915_wait_request() triggering, which will cause lock-ups.

See for example
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/903010
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/14/395Reported-requested-and-tested-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
Reported-by: Richard Eames <Richard.Eames@flinders.edu.au>
Reported-by: Rocko Requin <rockorequin@hotmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>