drivers: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support

The "oprofile" user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support
any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to
the perf interfaces.

Remove kernel's old oprofile support.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> #RCU
Acked-by: William Cohen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>

Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.rst

@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ Although RCU is usually used to protect read-mostly data structures,
 it is possible to use RCU to provide dynamic non-maskable interrupt
 handlers, as well as dynamic irq handlers.  This document describes
 how to do this, drawing loosely from Zwane Mwaikambo's NMI-timer
-work in "arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_timer_int.c" and in
-"arch/x86/kernel/traps.c".
+work in "arch/x86/kernel/traps.c".
 
 The relevant pieces of code are listed below, each followed by a
 brief explanation::

Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -3458,20 +3458,6 @@
 			For example, to override I2C bus2:
 			omap_mux=i2c2_scl.i2c2_scl=0x100,i2c2_sda.i2c2_sda=0x100
 
-	oprofile.timer=	[HW]
-			Use timer interrupt instead of performance counters
-
-	oprofile.cpu_type=	Force an oprofile cpu type
-			This might be useful if you have an older oprofile
-			userland or if you want common events.
-			Format: { arch_perfmon }
-			arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural
-				perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the
-				CPU specific event set.
-			timer: [X86] Force use of architectural NMI
-				timer mode (see also oprofile.timer
-				for generic hr timer mode)
-
 	oops=panic	Always panic on oopses. Default is to just kill the
 			process, but there is a small probability of
 			deadlocking the machine.

Documentation/process/magic-number.rst

@@ -135,7 +135,6 @@ FW_HEADER_MAGIC       0x65726F66       fw_header                ``drivers/atm/fo
 SLOT_MAGIC            0x67267321       slot                     ``drivers/hotplug/cpqphp.h``
 SLOT_MAGIC            0x67267322       slot                     ``drivers/hotplug/acpiphp.h``
 LO_MAGIC              0x68797548       nbd_device               ``include/linux/nbd.h``
-OPROFILE_MAGIC        0x6f70726f       super_block              ``drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.h``
 M3_STATE_MAGIC        0x734d724d       m3_state                 ``sound/oss/maestro3.c``
 VMALLOC_MAGIC         0x87654320       snd_alloc_track          ``sound/core/memory.c``
 KMALLOC_MAGIC         0x87654321       snd_alloc_track          ``sound/core/memory.c``

Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/magic-number.rst

@@ -141,7 +141,6 @@ FW_HEADER_MAGIC       0x65726F66       fw_header                ``drivers/atm/fo
 SLOT_MAGIC            0x67267321       slot                     ``drivers/hotplug/cpqphp.h``
 SLOT_MAGIC            0x67267322       slot                     ``drivers/hotplug/acpiphp.h``
 LO_MAGIC              0x68797548       nbd_device               ``include/linux/nbd.h``
-OPROFILE_MAGIC        0x6f70726f       super_block              ``drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.h``
 M3_STATE_MAGIC        0x734d724d       m3_state                 ``sound/oss/maestro3.c``
 VMALLOC_MAGIC         0x87654320       snd_alloc_track          ``sound/core/memory.c``
 KMALLOC_MAGIC         0x87654321       snd_alloc_track          ``sound/core/memory.c``

Documentation/translations/zh_CN/process/magic-number.rst

@@ -124,7 +124,6 @@ FW_HEADER_MAGIC       0x65726F66       fw_header                ``drivers/atm/fo
 SLOT_MAGIC            0x67267321       slot                     ``drivers/hotplug/cpqphp.h``
 SLOT_MAGIC            0x67267322       slot                     ``drivers/hotplug/acpiphp.h``
 LO_MAGIC              0x68797548       nbd_device               ``include/linux/nbd.h``
-OPROFILE_MAGIC        0x6f70726f       super_block              ``drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.h``
 M3_STATE_MAGIC        0x734d724d       m3_state                 ``sound/oss/maestro3.c``
 VMALLOC_MAGIC         0x87654320       snd_alloc_track          ``sound/core/memory.c``
 KMALLOC_MAGIC         0x87654321       snd_alloc_track          ``sound/core/memory.c``

MAINTAINERS

@@ -1414,7 +1414,6 @@ F:	arch/arm*/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h
 F:	arch/arm*/include/asm/perf_event.h
 F:	arch/arm*/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
 F:	arch/arm*/kernel/perf_*
-F:	arch/arm/oprofile/common.c
 F:	drivers/perf/
 F:	include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h
 
@@ -4083,7 +4082,6 @@ W:	http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell/
 F:	arch/powerpc/include/asm/cell*.h
 F:	arch/powerpc/include/asm/spu*.h
 F:	arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/spu*.h
-F:	arch/powerpc/oprofile/*cell*
 F:	arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/
 
 CELLWISE CW2015 BATTERY DRIVER
@@ -13311,15 +13309,6 @@ S:	Maintained
 T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git
 F:	sound/drivers/opl4/
 
-OPROFILE
-M:	Robert Richter <[email protected]>
-L:	[email protected]
-S:	Maintained
-F:	arch/*/include/asm/oprofile*.h
-F:	arch/*/oprofile/
-F:	drivers/oprofile/
-F:	include/linux/oprofile.h
-
 ORACLE CLUSTER FILESYSTEM 2 (OCFS2)
 M:	Mark Fasheh <[email protected]>
 M:	Joel Becker <[email protected]>

arch/Kconfig

@@ -33,38 +33,6 @@ config HOTPLUG_SMT
 config GENERIC_ENTRY
        bool
 
-config OPROFILE
-	tristate "OProfile system profiling"
-	depends on PROFILING
-	depends on HAVE_OPROFILE
-	select RING_BUFFER
-	select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
-	help
-	  OProfile is a profiling system capable of profiling the
-	  whole system, include the kernel, kernel modules, libraries,
-	  and applications.
-
-	  If unsure, say N.
-
-config OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX
-	bool "OProfile multiplexing support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
-	default n
-	depends on OPROFILE && X86
-	help
-	  The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing
-	  feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters
-	  are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching
-	  between events at a user specified time interval.
-
-	  If unsure, say N.
-
-config HAVE_OPROFILE
-	bool
-
-config OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER
-	def_bool y
-	depends on PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && !PPC64
-
 config KPROBES
 	bool "Kprobes"
 	depends on MODULES