Re: [GIT PULL] perf_event/tracing/powerpc patches from Anton Blanchard

Ingo Molnar
2009-11-08T09:35:29Z

* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 07:55 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Here is a series of patches from Anton Blanchard that implement some
> > > nice tracing and perf_event features on powerpc. One of them is
> > > generic perf_event stuff (adding software events for alignment faults
> > > and instruction emulation faults).
> > >
> > > Since this touches the perf_event and tracing subsystems as well as
> > > the powerpc architecture code, I think the best way forward is for
> > > both Ingo and Ben to pull it into their trees. I have based it on the
> > > most recent point in Linus' tree that Ingo had pulled into his perf
> > > branches (as of yesterday or so).
> >
> > The generic perf bits look good to me - can pull it if Ben OKs the
> > PowerPC bits.
>
> Yup. Just went through all of them, they look fine. I also test built on
> a number of default configs and it seems to pass.

Pulled into tip:perf/powerpc (will keep it in a separate branch for a
few days then it can go into perf/core), thanks guys!

Ingo