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Date:   Fri, 4 May 2018 12:26:01 +0200
From:   Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
To:     Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] MIPS: Oprofile: Drop support
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On 04.05.18 10:54:32, Matt Redfearn wrote:
> perf is available for MIPS and supports many more CPU types than oprofile.
> oprofile userspace seemingly has been broken since 1.0.0 - removing oprofile
> support from the MIPS kernel would not break it more thatn it already is,

What do you mean with "oprofile is broken"? It looks like you modified
Kconfig to enable oprofile and perf in parallel, which is not intended
to work. Have you tried a kernel with oprofile disabled and perf
enabled?

As said, oprofile version 0.9.x is still available for cpus that do
not support perf. What is the breakage?

Thanks,

-Robert