On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 06:57:59AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:46:18AM +0100, 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. > > Nice, I didn't know such a backend already existed. Now that you > have made it generic we should aim towards making it the only oprofile > backend and getting rid of all the duplication. Definitely. I've added linux-arch in case there's some maintainers that want to use this now. The new generic code is in this patch, http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/23/118 For an example of how the SH oprofile stuff changed see, http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/23/117 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html