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 af...

arch/arm/include/asm/unistd.h

@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@
 #define __NR_preadv			(__NR_SYSCALL_BASE+361)
 #define __NR_pwritev			(__NR_SYSCALL_BASE+362)
 #define __NR_rt_tgsigqueueinfo		(__NR_SYSCALL_BASE+363)
-#define __NR_perf_counter_open		(__NR_SYSCALL_BASE+364)
+#define __NR_perf_event_open		(__NR_SYSCALL_BASE+364)
 
 /*
  * The following SWIs are ARM private.

arch/arm/kernel/calls.S

@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@
 		CALL(sys_preadv)
 		CALL(sys_pwritev)
 		CALL(sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo)
-		CALL(sys_perf_counter_open)
+		CALL(sys_perf_event_open)
 #ifndef syscalls_counted
 .equ syscalls_padding, ((NR_syscalls + 3) & ~3) - NR_syscalls
 #define syscalls_counted

arch/blackfin/include/asm/unistd.h

@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@
 #define __NR_preadv		366
 #define __NR_pwritev		367
 #define __NR_rt_tgsigqueueinfo	368
-#define __NR_perf_counter_open	369
+#define __NR_perf_event_open	369
 
 #define __NR_syscall		370
 #define NR_syscalls		__NR_syscall

arch/blackfin/mach-common/entry.S

@@ -1620,7 +1620,7 @@ ENTRY(_sys_call_table)
 	.long _sys_preadv
 	.long _sys_pwritev
 	.long _sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo
-	.long _sys_perf_counter_open
+	.long _sys_perf_event_open
 
 	.rept NR_syscalls-(.-_sys_call_table)/4
 	.long _sys_ni_syscall

arch/frv/Kconfig

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ config FRV
 	default y
 	select HAVE_IDE
 	select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
-	select HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS
+	select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
 
 config ZONE_DMA
 	bool

arch/frv/include/asm/perf_counter.h → arch/frv/include/asm/perf_event.h

-/* FRV performance counter support
+/* FRV performance event support
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
  * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
  * 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.
  */
 
-#ifndef _ASM_PERF_COUNTER_H
-#define _ASM_PERF_COUNTER_H
+#ifndef _ASM_PERF_EVENT_H
+#define _ASM_PERF_EVENT_H
 
-#define PERF_COUNTER_INDEX_OFFSET	0
+#define PERF_EVENT_INDEX_OFFSET	0
 
-#endif /* _ASM_PERF_COUNTER_H */
+#endif /* _ASM_PERF_EVENT_H */

arch/frv/include/asm/unistd.h

@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@
 #define __NR_preadv		333
 #define __NR_pwritev		334
 #define __NR_rt_tgsigqueueinfo	335
-#define __NR_perf_counter_open	336
+#define __NR_perf_event_open	336
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 

arch/frv/kernel/entry.S

@@ -1525,6 +1525,6 @@ sys_call_table:
 	.long sys_preadv
 	.long sys_pwritev
 	.long sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo	/* 335 */
-	.long sys_perf_counter_open
+	.long sys_perf_event_open
 
 syscall_table_size = (. - sys_call_table)

arch/frv/lib/Makefile

@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@
 lib-y := \
 	__ashldi3.o __lshrdi3.o __muldi3.o __ashrdi3.o __negdi2.o __ucmpdi2.o \
 	checksum.o memcpy.o memset.o atomic-ops.o atomic64-ops.o \
-	outsl_ns.o outsl_sw.o insl_ns.o insl_sw.o cache.o perf_counter.o
+	outsl_ns.o outsl_sw.o insl_ns.o insl_sw.o cache.o perf_event.o

arch/frv/lib/perf_counter.c → arch/frv/lib/perf_event.c

-/* Performance counter handling
+/* Performance event handling
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
  * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@
  * 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.
  */
 
-#include <linux/perf_counter.h>
+#include <linux/perf_event.h>
 
 /*
- * mark the performance counter as pending
+ * mark the performance event as pending
  */
-void set_perf_counter_pending(void)
+void set_perf_event_pending(void)
 {
 }

arch/m68k/include/asm/unistd.h

@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@
 #define __NR_preadv		329
 #define __NR_pwritev		330
 #define __NR_rt_tgsigqueueinfo	331
-#define __NR_perf_counter_open	332
+#define __NR_perf_event_open	332
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 

arch/m68k/kernel/entry.S

@@ -756,5 +756,5 @@ sys_call_table:
 	.long sys_preadv
 	.long sys_pwritev		/* 330 */
 	.long sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo
-	.long sys_perf_counter_open
+	.long sys_perf_event_open
 

arch/m68knommu/kernel/syscalltable.S

@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ ENTRY(sys_call_table)
 	.long sys_preadv
 	.long sys_pwritev		/* 330 */
 	.long sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo
-	.long sys_perf_counter_open
+	.long sys_perf_event_open
 
 	.rept NR_syscalls-(.-sys_call_table)/4
 		.long sys_ni_syscall

arch/microblaze/include/asm/unistd.h

@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@
 #define __NR_preadv		363 /* new */
 #define __NR_pwritev		364 /* new */
 #define __NR_rt_tgsigqueueinfo	365 /* new */
-#define __NR_perf_counter_open	366 /* new */
+#define __NR_perf_event_open	366 /* new */
 
 #define __NR_syscalls		367
 

arch/microblaze/kernel/syscall_table.S

@@ -370,4 +370,4 @@ ENTRY(sys_call_table)
 	.long sys_ni_syscall
 	.long sys_ni_syscall
 	.long sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo	/* 365 */
-	.long sys_perf_counter_open
+	.long sys_perf_event_open

arch/mips/include/asm/unistd.h

@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@
 #define __NR_preadv			(__NR_Linux + 330)
 #define __NR_pwritev			(__NR_Linux + 331)
 #define __NR_rt_tgsigqueueinfo		(__NR_Linux + 332)
-#define __NR_perf_counter_open		(__NR_Linux + 333)
+#define __NR_perf_event_open		(__NR_Linux + 333)
 #define __NR_accept4			(__NR_Linux + 334)
 
 /*
@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@
 #define __NR_preadv			(__NR_Linux + 289)
 #define __NR_pwritev			(__NR_Linux + 290)
 #define __NR_rt_tgsigqueueinfo		(__NR_Linux + 291)
-#define __NR_perf_counter_open		(__NR_Linux + 292)
+#define __NR_perf_event_open		(__NR_Linux + 292)
 #define __NR_accept4			(__NR_Linux + 293)
 
 /*
@@ -979,7 +979,7 @@
 #define __NR_preadv			(__NR_Linux + 293)
 #define __NR_pwritev			(__NR_Linux + 294)
 #define __NR_rt_tgsigqueueinfo		(__NR_Linux + 295)
-#define __NR_perf_counter_open		(__NR_Linux + 296)
+#define __NR_perf_event_open		(__NR_Linux + 296)
 #define __NR_accept4			(__NR_Linux + 297)
 
 /*

arch/mips/kernel/scall32-o32.S

@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ einval:	li	v0, -ENOSYS
 	sys	sys_preadv		6	/* 4330 */
 	sys	sys_pwritev		6
 	sys	sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo	4
-	sys	sys_perf_counter_open	5
+	sys	sys_perf_event_open	5
 	sys	sys_accept4		4
 	.endm
 

arch/mips/kernel/scall64-64.S

@@ -418,6 +418,6 @@ sys_call_table:
 	PTR	sys_preadv
 	PTR	sys_pwritev			/* 5390 */
 	PTR	sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo
-	PTR	sys_perf_counter_open
+	PTR	sys_perf_event_open
 	PTR	sys_accept4
 	.size	sys_call_table,.-sys_call_table

arch/mips/kernel/scall64-n32.S

@@ -416,6 +416,6 @@ EXPORT(sysn32_call_table)
 	PTR	sys_preadv
 	PTR	sys_pwritev
 	PTR	compat_sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo	/* 5295 */
-	PTR	sys_perf_counter_open
+	PTR	sys_perf_event_open
 	PTR	sys_accept4
 	.size	sysn32_call_table,.-sysn32_call_table

arch/mips/kernel/scall64-o32.S

@@ -536,6 +536,6 @@ sys_call_table:
 	PTR	compat_sys_preadv		/* 4330 */
 	PTR	compat_sys_pwritev
 	PTR	compat_sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo
-	PTR	sys_perf_counter_open
+	PTR	sys_perf_event_open
 	PTR	sys_accept4
 	.size	sys_call_table,.-sys_call_table