oprofile: remove double ring buffering
authorAndi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Thu, 1 Apr 2010 01:17:25 +0000 (03:17 +0200)
committerRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:30:38 +0000 (15:30 +0200)
commitcb6e943ccf19ab6d3189147e9d625a992e016084
tree8ecbe4eae825ea4f7bbb685cab5a45206d437f05
parenta36bf32e9e8a86f291f746b7f8292e042ee04a46
oprofile: remove double ring buffering

oprofile used a double buffer scheme for its cpu event buffer
to avoid races on reading with the old locked ring buffer.

But that is obsolete now with the new ring buffer, so simply
use a single buffer. This greatly simplifies the code and avoids
a lot of sample drops on large runs, especially with call graph.

Based on suggestions from Steven Rostedt

For stable kernels from v2.6.32, but not earlier.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.c