linux-kernel - [RFC][PATCH 0/4] perf: remove __weak function hw_perf_group_sched

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Message-Id: <1271922655.30535.106.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:50:55 +0800
From:	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"eranian@...il.com" <eranian@...il.com>,
	"Gary.Mohr@...l.com" <Gary.Mohr@...l.com>,
	Corey Ashford <cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	arjan@...ux.intel.com,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 0/4] perf: remove __weak function
 hw_perf_group_sched_in()

Hi, all

>>From the discussion of thread "[RFC] perf_events: support for uncore
a.k.a. nest units", in order to support multiple hw pmu, Peter suggested
the first thing that needs to be done is get rid of all the __weak
functions (with exception of perf_callchain*, since that really is arch
specific), includes 

hw_perf_group_sched_in
hw_perf_event_init
hw_perf_disable
hw_perf_enable

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> One thing not on that list, which should happen first I guess, is to
> remove hw_perf_group_sched_in(). The idea is to add some sort of
> transactional API to the struct pmu, so that we can delay the
> schedulability check until commit time (and roll back when it fails).
>
> Something as simple as:
>
>  struct pmu {
>    void start_txn(struct pmu *);
>    void commit_txn(struct pmu *);
>
>    ,,,
>  };
>
> and then change group_sched_in() to use this instead of
> hw_perf_group_sched_in(), whose implementations mostly replicate
> group_sched_in() in various buggy ways anyway.
>

This patch series is to remove hw_perf_group_sched_in() first.

patch 1: core, add group scheduling transactional APIs
patch 2: x86, implement group scheduling transactional APIs
patch 3: powerpc, implement group scheduling transactional APIs
patch 4: sparc, implement group scheduling transactional APIs

Thanks for any comment.

Lin Ming

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