From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e39.co.us.ibm.com (e39.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.160]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e39.co.us.ibm.com", Issuer "GeoTrust SSL CA" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8D3712C032E for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 06:40:01 +1000 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e39.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 28 May 2013 14:39:58 -0600 Received: from d01relay07.pok.ibm.com (d01relay07.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.147]) by d01dlp01.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4379938C804D for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 16:39:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by d01relay07.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r4SKds0K52101198 for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 16:39:54 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r4SKdrpm028112 for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 16:39:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 13:39:50 -0700 From: Nishanth Aravamudan To: benh@kernel.crashing.org Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/cputable: fix oprofile_cpu_type on power8 Message-ID: <20130528203950.GA30172@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Maynard Johnson , Michael Neuling , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Maynard informed me that neither the oprofile kernel module nor oprofile userspace has been updated to support that "legacy" oprofile module interface for power8, which is indicated by "ppc64/power8." This results in no samples. The solution is to default to the "timer" type, instead. The raw entry also should be updated, as "ppc64/ibm-compat-v1" indicates to oprofile userspace to use "compatibility events" which are obsolete in ISA 2.07. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan --- Ben, if this seems reasonable to you, it would be great to get this into 3.10. diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c index c60bbec..b8808bc 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c @@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ static struct cpu_spec __initdata cpu_specs[] = { .icache_bsize = 128, .dcache_bsize = 128, .oprofile_type = PPC_OPROFILE_POWER4, - .oprofile_cpu_type = "ppc64/ibm-compat-v1", + .oprofile_cpu_type = 0, .cpu_setup = __setup_cpu_power8, .cpu_restore = __restore_cpu_power8, .platform = "power8", @@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ static struct cpu_spec __initdata cpu_specs[] = { .dcache_bsize = 128, .num_pmcs = 6, .pmc_type = PPC_PMC_IBM, - .oprofile_cpu_type = "ppc64/power8", + .oprofile_cpu_type = 0, .oprofile_type = PPC_OPROFILE_POWER4, .cpu_setup = __setup_cpu_power8, .cpu_restore = __restore_cpu_power8,