From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:09:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from extgw-uk.mips.com ([62.254.210.129]:29447 "EHLO bacchus.net.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8134064AbVKPQIv (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:08:51 +0000 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.net.dhis.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jAGGAjSD016500; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:10:46 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id jAGGAWlP016496; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:10:32 GMT Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:10:32 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: colin Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Does oProfile support 4KE now? Message-ID: <20051116161031.GH3229@linux-mips.org> References: <006c01c5ea83$c7cec780$106215ac@realtek.com.tw> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <006c01c5ea83$c7cec780$106215ac@realtek.com.tw> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 9514 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:00:16PM +0800, colin wrote: > >From the CVS of oProfile > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/oprofile/oprofile/events/mips/, I > donot see 4KE in it. The 4K processors don't implement performance counters which are required for any serious use of Oprofile. Lacking performance counters there is always the fallback option of using the timer interrupt but of course that means you won't be able to take advantage of much of Oprofile's fancyness. Ralf