perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing
authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:08:49 +0000 (16:08 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tue, 6 Oct 2009 12:21:50 +0000 (14:21 +0200)
commit906010b2134e14a2e377decbadd357b3d0ab9c6a
tree598b30d08f5ca8df1e00abc295b120fa1bd2c2e2
parente13dbd7d75d1ecc315c6e3071b3c4e8fba4f6bec
perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing

Some architectures such as Sparc, ARM and MIPS (basically
everything with flush_dcache_page()) need to deal with dcache
aliases by carefully placing pages in both kernel and user maps.

These architectures typically have to use vmalloc_user() for this.

However, on other architectures, vmalloc() is not needed and has
the downsides of being more restricted and slower than regular
allocations.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1254830228.21044.272.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/sparc/Kconfig
include/linux/perf_event.h
init/Kconfig
kernel/perf_event.c
tools/perf/design.txt