From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3D831FFF.84380C87@koffie.nl> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 13:39:43 +0200 From: Segher Boessenkool MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anton Blanchard Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: RFC: Performance Monitor Counters device References: <3D80F2F7.3FB3AE4B@koffie.nl> <20020913100402.GC10515@krispykreme> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Anton Blanchard wrote: > It would be great if we could plug into something like oprofile. > Linus was even interested in merging some sort of simple profiling > infrastructure. > > We have a similar issue on ppc64, if we could share at least part > of it between ppc32 and ppc64 that would be nice. Some parts of the interface, like the raw/cooked counter reading and the simplest forms of profiling interrupts, can probably be shared across all architectures; ppc32 and ppc64 can probably share about everything. Segher ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/