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# 259065 07-Dec-2013 gjb

- Copy stable/10 (r259064) to releng/10.0 as part of the
10.0-RELEASE cycle.
- Update __FreeBSD_version [1]
- Set branch name to -RC1

[1] 10.0-CURRENT __FreeBSD_version value ended at '55', so
start releng/10.0 at '100' so the branch is started with
a value ending in zero.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 157268 29-Mar-2006 jhb

Move the PC_TO_I() and KCOUNT() macros so they aren't GUPROF specific
since they operate on fields of struct gmonparam which is not GUPROF
specific.

Approved by: bde
Reported by: alc


# 130484 14-Jun-2004 bms

Add prototypes for the userland gmon support functions, which normally
live in src/lib/libc/gmon/gmon.c. glibc puts these prototypes in the same
header, so put them here for the sake of consistency.

PR: bin/4459
Reviewed by: bde


# 129444 19-May-2004 bde

Moved most of the "MI" definitions and declarations from <machine/profile.h>
to <sys/gmon.h>. Cleaned them up a little by not attempting to ifdef
for incomplete and out of date support for GUPROF in userland, as in
the sparc64 version.


# 127976 07-Apr-2004 imp

Remove advertising clause from University of California Regent's license,
per letter dated July 22, 1999.

Approved by: core


# 91009 21-Feb-2002 bde

Reserved one of the spare fields in struct gmon to record the history
counter type, as threatened in rev.1.8 (the density doesn't need to
be recorded since it can be derived from other fields). This doesn't
affect binary compatibility, but new utilities won't be able to depend
on the contents of this field because libc/gmon/gmon.c was broken --
it wrote garbage to the spare fields.

Added a history counter type field to struct gmonparam. This breaks
binary compatibility a little, since kgmon wanted to read the whole
struct. Fixed kgmon to only depend on reading the critical earlier
parts of the struct. This should also fix 6+ year old breakage of
binary compatibility when the profrate field was added.

Only initialize the new field in struct gmon for now, so that the
compatibility code for this (in kgmon) gets tested. The compatibility
code has to guesstimate the value. The new field in struct gmonparam
is for the kernel to initialize so that kgmon doesn't have to guess.


# 50477 27-Aug-1999 peter

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 37629 14-Jul-1998 bde

Changed to the C9x draft spelling of the (unsigned) integral type
suitable for holding object pointers (ptrint_t -> uintptr_t).
Added corresponding signed type (intptr_t). Changed/added
corresponding non-C9x types for function pointers to match. Don't
use nonstandard types to implement these types, and don't comment
on them in <machine/types.h>.


# 27379 13-Jul-1997 bde

32-bit counters aren't large enough for 100+MHz clocks. Use 64-bit
counters. `4' in GPROF4 and gprof4 now means 8. gprof4 needs to be
recompiled to match the kernel.


# 22975 22-Feb-1997 peter

Back out part 1 of the MCFH that changed $Id$ to $FreeBSD$. We are not
ready for it yet.


# 22639 13-Feb-1997 bde

Moved definition of FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT to a machine-dependent place.
Changed it from 4 to 16 for i386's. It can be anything for i386's,
but compiler options limit it to a power of 2, and assembler and
linker deficiencies limit it to a small power of 2 (<= 16).
We use 16 in the kernel to get smaller tables (see Makefile.i386 and
<machine/asmacros.h>). We still use the default of 4 in user mode.

Use HISTCOUNTER instead of (*kcount) in the definition of KCOUNT()
for consistency with other macros.


# 21673 14-Jan-1997 jkh

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.


# 19000 17-Oct-1996 bde

Improved non-statistical (GUPROF) profiling:
- use a more accurate and more efficient method of compensating for
overheads. The old method counted too much time against leaf
functions.
- normally use the Pentium timestamp counter if available.
On Pentiums, the times are now accurate to within a couple of cpu
clock cycles per function call in the (unlikely) event that there
are no cache misses in or caused by the profiling code.
- optionally use an arbitrary Pentium event counter if available.
- optionally regress to using the i8254 counter.
- scaled the i8254 counter by a factor of 128. Now the i8254 counters
overflow slightly faster than the TSC counters for a 150MHz Pentium :-)
(after about 16 seconds). This is to avoid fractional overheads.

files.i386:
permon.c temporarily has to be classified as a profiling-routine
because a couple of functions in it may be called from profiling code.

options.i386:
- I586_CTR_GUPROF is currently unused (oops).
- I586_PMC_GUPROF should be something like 0x70000 to enable (but not
use unless prof_machdep.c is changed) support for Pentium event
counters. 7 is a control mode and the counter number 0 is somewhere
in the 0000 bits (see perfmon.h for the encoding).

profile.h:
- added declarations.
- cleaned up separation of user mode declarations.

prof_machdep.c:
Mostly clock-select changes. The default clock can be changed by
editing kmem. There should be a sysctl for this.

subr_prof.c:
- added copyright.
- calibrate overheads for the new method.
- documented new method.
- fixed races and and machine dependencies in start/stop code.

mcount.c:
Use the new overhead compensation method.

gmon.h:
- changed GPROF4 counter type from unsigned to int. Oops, this should
be machine-dependent and/or int32_t.
- reorganized overhead counters.

Submitted by: Pentium event counter changes mostly by wollman


# 13107 29-Dec-1995 bde

Implemented non-statistical kernel profiling. This is based on
looking at a high resolution clock for each of the following events:
function call, function return, interrupt entry, interrupt exit,
and interesting branches. The differences between the times of
these events are added at appropriate places in a ordinary histogram
(as if very fast statistical profiling sampled the pc at those
places) so that ordinary gprof can be used to analyze the times.

gmon.h:
Histogram counters need to be 4 bytes for microsecond resolutions.
They will need to be larger for the 586 clock.
The comments were vax-centric and wrong even on vaxes. Does anyone
disagree?

gprof4.c:
The standard gprof should support counters of all integral sizes
and the size of the counter should be in the gmon header. This
hack will do until then. (Use gprof4 -u to examine the results
of non-statistical profiling.)

config/*:
Non-statistical profiling is configured with `config -pp'.
`config -p' still gives ordinary profiling.

kgmon/*:
Non-statistical profiling is enabled with `kgmon -B'. `kgmon -b'
still enables ordinary profiling (and distables non-statistical
profiling) if non-statistical profiling is configured.


# 10407 29-Aug-1995 bde

kmstartup had the wrong type and unnecessarily external linkage for a
sysinit function.

subr_prof.c:
Remove useless comment.


# 8876 30-May-1995 rgrimes

Remove trailing whitespace.


# 8504 14-May-1995 dg

Changed swap partition handling/allocation so that it doesn't
require specific partitions be mentioned in the kernel config
file ("swap on foo" is now obsolete).

From Poul-Henning:

The visible effect is this:

As default, unless
options "NSWAPDEV=23"
is in your config, you will have four swap-devices.
You can swapon(2) any block device you feel like, it doesn't have
to be in the kernel config.

There is a performance/resource win available by getting the NSWAPDEV right
(but only if you have just one swap-device ??), but using that as default
would be too restrictive.

The invisible effect is that:

Swap-handling disappears from the $arch part of the kernel.
It gets a lot simpler (-145 lines) and cleaner.

Reviewed by: John Dyson, David Greenman
Submitted by: Poul-Henning Kamp, with minor changes by me.


# 7090 16-Mar-1995 bde

Add and move declarations to fix all of the warnings from `gcc -Wimplicit'
(except in netccitt, netiso and netns) and most of the warnings from
`gcc -Wnested-externs'. Fix all the bugs found. There were no serious
ones.


# 6010 29-Jan-1995 bde

Define MAXARCS correctly. It has nothing to do with HISTCOUNTER, and
overflowed when I enlarged HISTCOUNTER to u_int.


# 1817 02-Aug-1994 dg

Added $Id$


# 1542 24-May-1994 rgrimes

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r1541,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.


# 1541 24-May-1994 rgrimes

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