remove perfctr support

Perfctr is a Linux kernel extension that allows programmatic access
to the performance monitoring counters found in most current CPUs.
However, development of perfctr ceased after 2010, and it cannot be
used with Linux kernels newer than 2.6.32.

Therefore the perfctr support code in the Erlang VM is effectively
dead code, so this patch removes it.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 53 deletions

diff --git a/erts/emulator/hipe/hipe_bif1.c b/erts/emulator/hipe/hipe_bif1.c
index 56767ef04b..ecb34df412 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/hipe/hipe_bif1.c
+++ b/erts/emulator/hipe/hipe_bif1.c
@@ -574,22 +574,6 @@ BIF_RETTYPE hipe_bifs_pause_times_0(BIF_ALIST_0)
 
 /* XXX: these macros have free variables */
 #ifdef BM_TIMERS
-#if USE_PERFCTR
-#define MAKE_TIME(_timer_) {			      \
-    BM_TIMER_T tmp = _timer_##_time;		      \
-    milli = (uint)(tmp - ((int)(tmp / 1000)) * 1000); \
-    tmp /= 1000;				      \
-    sec = (uint)(tmp - ((int)(tmp / 60)) * 60);	      \
-    min = (uint)tmp / 60;			      }
-
-#define MAKE_MICRO_TIME(_timer_) {		      \
-    BM_TIMER_T tmp = _timer_##_time * 1000;	      \
-    micro = (uint)(tmp - ((int)(tmp / 1000)) * 1000); \
-    tmp /= 1000;				      \
-    milli = (uint)(tmp - ((int)(tmp / 1000)) * 1000); \
-    sec = (uint)tmp / 1000;			      }
-
-#else
 #define MAKE_TIME(_timer_) {			      \
     BM_TIMER_T tmp = _timer_##_time / 1000000;	      \
     milli = tmp % 1000;				      \
@@ -604,7 +588,6 @@ BIF_RETTYPE hipe_bifs_pause_times_0(BIF_ALIST_0)
     milli = tmp % 1000;				      \
     sec = tmp / 1000;				      }
 
-#endif
 #else
 #define MAKE_TIME(_timer_)
 #define MAKE_MICRO_TIME(_timer_)
@@ -852,9 +835,6 @@ BIF_RETTYPE hipe_bifs_misc_timer_clear_0(BIF_ALIST_0)
 /*
  * HiPE hrvtime().
  * These implementations are currently available:
- * + On Linux with the perfctr extension we can use the process'
- *   virtualised time-stamp counter. To enable this mode you must
- *   pass `--with-perfctr=/path/to/perfctr' when configuring.
  * + The fallback, which is the same as {X,_} = runtime(statistics).
  */
 
@@ -866,37 +846,6 @@ static double fallback_get_hrvtime(void)
     return (double)ms_user;
 }
 
-#if USE_PERFCTR
-
-#include "hipe_perfctr.h"
-static int hrvtime_started;	/* 0: closed, +1: perfctr, -1: fallback */
-#define hrvtime_is_started()	(hrvtime_started != 0)
-
-static void start_hrvtime(void)
-{
-    if (hipe_perfctr_hrvtime_open() >= 0)
-	hrvtime_started = 1;
-    else
-	hrvtime_started = -1;
-}
-
-static void stop_hrvtime(void)
-{
-    if (hrvtime_started > 0)
-	hipe_perfctr_hrvtime_close();
-    hrvtime_started = 0;
-}
-
-static double get_hrvtime(void)
-{
-    if (hrvtime_started > 0)
-	return hipe_perfctr_hrvtime_get();
-    else
-	return fallback_get_hrvtime();
-}
-
-#else	/* !USE_PERFCTR */
-
 /*
  * Fallback, if nothing better exists.
  * This is the same as {X,_} = statistics(runtime), which uses
@@ -908,8 +857,6 @@ static double get_hrvtime(void)
 #define stop_hrvtime()		do{}while(0)
 #define get_hrvtime()		fallback_get_hrvtime()
 
-#endif	/* !USE_PERFCTR */
-
 BIF_RETTYPE hipe_bifs_get_hrvtime_0(BIF_ALIST_0)
 {
     Eterm *hp;