From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262382AbTFZU1w (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:27:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262423AbTFZU1w (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:27:52 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-rdu.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:29072 "EHLO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262382AbTFZU1t (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:27:49 -0400 Message-ID: <3EFB5A9B.3030802@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:42:03 -0400 From: Will Cohen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: ppc64 oprofile on IBM i series Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In arch/ppc64/kernel/time.c:timer_interrupt There is the following ifndef: #ifndef CONFIG_PPC_ISERIES ppc64_do_profile(regs); #endif I got access to a i series machine and tried a kernel with the surrounding ifndef removed to test whether the oprofile support would work on a i series machine. OProfile appears to work. Is there some reason that it is disabled for i series machines, e.g. doesn't work on particular i series machines? -Will