Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755639AbYAOQdg (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:33:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751694AbYAOQd3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:33:29 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:53024 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751102AbYAOQd2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:33:28 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:32:51 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Russell King , Adrian Bunk , Andrew Morton , Mathieu Desnoyers , Randy Dunlap , phil.el@wanadoo.fr, oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [2.6.24 patch] restore ARMv6 OProfile support Message-ID: <20080115163251.GC31270@elte.hu> References: <20071228195841.GA3945@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20080115104526.GA32067@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1153 Lines: 28 * Linus Torvalds wrote: > But as mentioned, it's totally untested and I don't have (or really > want to have) a cross-compiling environment. And I don't care *that* > much. I just want something we can all live with. > > So does something like this work for people? > arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 +- > arch/arm/Kconfig.instrumentation | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) i like this approach better, not the least because it affects only one architecture so late in the .24-rc cycle. Instrumentation bugs tend to be found with a few weeks/months of delays. (because historically instrumentation has been typically used by folks who cannot change their kernel easily to debug it, i.e. by extension they dont run bleeding edge kernels either.) Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/