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perf-core-2022-12-12

tagged this 12 Dec 20:16
 - Thoroughly rewrite the data structures that implement perf task context handling,
   with the goal of fixing various quirks and unfeatures both in already merged,
   and in upcoming proposed code.

   The old data structure is the per task and per cpu perf_event_contexts:

         task_struct::perf_events_ctxp[] <-> perf_event_context <-> perf_cpu_context
              ^                                 |    ^     |           ^
              `---------------------------------'    |     `--> pmu ---'
                                                     v           ^
                                                perf_event ------'

   In this new design this is replaced with a single task context and
   a single CPU context, plus intermediate data-structures:

         task_struct::perf_event_ctxp -> perf_event_context <- perf_cpu_context
              ^                           |   ^ ^
              `---------------------------'   | |
                                              | |    perf_cpu_pmu_context <--.
                                              | `----.    ^                  |
                                              |      |    |                  |
                                              |      v    v                  |
                                              | ,--> perf_event_pmu_context  |
                                              | |                            |
                                              | |                            |
                                              v v                            |
                                         perf_event ---> pmu ----------------'

   [ See commit bd2756811766 for more details. ]

   This rewrite was developed by Peter Zijlstra and Ravi Bangoria.

 - Optimize perf_tp_event()

 - Update the Intel uncore PMU driver, extending it with UPI topology discovery
   on various hardware models.

 - Misc fixes & cleanups

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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