r336773 removed all things xscale. However, some things xscale are
really armv5. Revert that entirely. A more modest removal will follow.
Noticed by: andrew@
The OLD XSCALE stuff hasn't been useful in a while. The original
committer (cognet@) was the only one that had boards for it. He's
blessed this removal. Newer XSCALE (GUMSTIX) is for hardware that's
quite old. After discussion on arm@, it was clear there was no support
for keeping it.
Differential Review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16313
New kernel events can be added at various location for sampling or counting.
This will for example allow easy system profiling whatever the processor is
with known tools like pmcstat(8).
Simultaneous usage of software PMC and hardware PMC is possible, for example
looking at the lock acquire failure, page fault while sampling on
instructions.
Sponsored by: NETASQ
MFC after: 1 month
Advantages:
- Reduces the number of different license versions in the tree
- Eliminates a typo
- Removes some incorrect author attributions due to c/p
- Removes c/p error potential for future pmc manpages
Approved by: jkoshy, gnn, rpaulo, fabient (copyright holders)
MFC after: 1 week
bottom of the manpages and order them consistently.
GNU groff doesn't care about the ordering, and doesn't even mention
CAVEATS and SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS as common sections and where to put
them.
Found by: mdocml lint run
Reviewed by: ru
This brings hwpmc(4) support for 2nd and 3rd generation XScale cores.
Right now it's enabled by default to make sure we test this a bit.
When the time comes it can be disabled by default.
Tested on Gateworks boards.
A man page is coming.
Obtained from: //depot/user/rpaulo/xscalepmc/...
