[PATCH 1/1] ARM: oprofile: add A5/A7/A15 entries in op_perf_name

[rric@kernel.org (Robert Richter)]

Will,

On 05.11.12 11:31:03, Will Deacon wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/oprofile/common.c b/arch/arm/oprofile/common.c
> > index 99c63d4b..ec10db1 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/oprofile/common.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/oprofile/common.c
> > @@ -37,8 +37,11 @@ static struct op_perf_name {
> >  	{ "xscale1",		"arm/xscale2"	},
> >  	{ "v6",			"arm/armv6"	},
> >  	{ "v6mpcore",		"arm/mpcore"	},
> > +	{ "ARMv7 Cortex-A5",	"arm/armv7-ca5"	},
> > +	{ "ARMv7 Cortex-A7",	"arm/armv7-ca7"	},
> >  	{ "ARMv7 Cortex-A8",	"arm/armv7"	},
> >  	{ "ARMv7 Cortex-A9",	"arm/armv7-ca9"	},
> > +	{ "ARMv7 Cortex-A15",	"arm/armv7-ca15" },
> >  };

> I'd rather not go down this route now that we have the operf tool as part of
> oprofile, which can use the perf syscall directly and doesn't need this
> string translation.

since this is just an update of cpu detection I would be willing to
include this into kernel code anyway.

We could further move the cpu detection to userspace if perf_event
exists. We let the kernel enable oprofile with cpu_type="unknown".
User space then could either bind mount the file (user could do this
manually) or we implement to write to cpu_type. Doing so oprofile
could use in-kernel perf_events if it exists always as fallback.

Any thoughts?

-Robert