Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932155Ab0HaLZL (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:25:11 -0400 Received: from arkanian.console-pimps.org ([212.110.184.194]:38676 "EHLO arkanian.console-pimps.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932141Ab0HaLZJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:25:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:25:08 +0100 From: Matt Fleming To: Robert Richter Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Will Deacon , Paul Mundt , Russell King , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-sh@vger.kernel.org" , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Frederic Weisbecker , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] Generalise ARM perf-events backend for oprofile Message-ID: <20100831112508.GA27532@console-pimps.org> References: <20100831110517.GE22783@erda.amd.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100831110517.GE22783@erda.amd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1417 Lines: 33 On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:05:17PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote: > On 26.08.10 15:09:15, Matt Fleming wrote: > > The perf-events backend for OProfile that Will Deacon wrote in > > 8c1fc96f6fd1f361428ba805103af0d0eee65179 ("ARM: 6072/1: oprofile: use > > perf-events framework as backend") is of use to more architectures > > than just ARM. Move the code into drivers/oprofile/ so that SH can use > > it instead of the nearly identical copy of its OProfile code. > > > > The benefit of the backend is that it becomes necessary to only > > maintain one copy of the PMU accessor functions for each architecture, > > with bug fixes and new features benefiting both OProfile and perf. > > > > Note that I haven't been able to test these patches on an ARM board to > > see if I've caused any regressions. If anyone else could do that I'd > > appreciate it. Though, I have been able to compile this version of the > > series. > > > > This patch series is based on tip/master. > > Matt, > > please rebase your next version of this patch set to > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile.git core > > It contains Will's patches. Sure, will do! Thanks. -- 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/