From: Greg Weeks <greg.weeks@timesys.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] OProfile driver in 2.6
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:51:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40BE1399.2080908@timesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040602183720.GC385@zaniah>
Philippe Elie wrote:
>On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 at 08:50 +0000, Tom Rini wrote:
>
>
>
>>On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:19:41AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I noticed that the driver for the OProfile profiling system, which
>>>existed in the linuxppc-2.5-benh tree, is disabled in the mainline,
>>>even though the driver still exists. Is there a reason for this? The
>>>attached patch re-enables the driver.
>>>
>>>
>>Because it has never been picked up, aside from when Ben took it into
>>his tree (assuming this is the patch Anton wrote a while back, and not
>>a re-write Ben did). BTW, this is missing a hunk I think, unless the
>>arch/ppc/kernel/time.c changes have already made it in.
>>
>>
>
>Right there is a missing call to profile_hook(regs); in ppc_do_profile()
>
>
The patch I've been using for ppc oprofile is archived here.
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-09/1228.html
I've always wondered why it never got picked up.
Greg Weeks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-02 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-02 9:19 [PATCH] OProfile driver in 2.6 Jens Schmalzing
2004-06-02 15:50 ` Tom Rini
2004-06-02 18:37 ` Philippe Elie
2004-06-02 17:51 ` Greg Weeks [this message]
2004-06-02 20:12 ` Jens Schmalzing
2004-06-02 17:03 ` Philippe Elie
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