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From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: Carl Love <cel@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, cel <cel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net,
	cbe-oss-dev <cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [Patch 1/3] User OProfile support for the IBM CELL processor SPU	event profiling
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:02:13 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1228179733.8004.45.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1228177110.6509.286.camel@carll-linux-desktop>

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On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 16:18 -0800, Carl Love wrote:
> This patch adds the SPU event profiling support for the IBM Cell
> processor to the list of available events. The opcontrol script
> patches include a test to see if there is a new cell specific file
> in the kernel oprofile file system.  If the file exists, then the
> kernel supports SPU event profiling.  
> 
> Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com>
> 

> Index: oprofile-cvs/doc/oprofile.xml
> ===================================================================
> --- oprofile-cvs.orig/doc/oprofile.xml
> +++ oprofile-cvs/doc/oprofile.xml
> @@ -123,6 +123,10 @@ For information on how to use OProfile's
>                         of 2.6.22 or more recent.  Additionally, full support of SPE profiling requires a BFD library
>                         from binutils code dated January 2007 or later.  To ensure the proper BFD support exists, run
>                         the <code>configure</code> utility with <code>--with-target=cell-be</code>.
> +
> +		       Profiling the Cell Broadband Engine using SPU events requires a kernel version of 2.6.TBD or
                                                                                                               ^^^

Not sure if you missed that, or it's still TBD, but careful it doesn't
get merged like that.

cheers

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-02  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-02  0:18 [Patch 1/3] User OProfile support for the IBM CELL processor SPU event profiling Carl Love
2008-12-02  1:02 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2008-12-02 15:57   ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Carl Love

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