Hi Matt, On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 07:07 +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. > [...] > > 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. > I've tested this patch series on a multicore Cortex-A9 board. If I revert patch 5/6 (ARM: Make oprofile depend on CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS) then everything seems to work fine. Otherwise, testing without HW_PERF_EVENTS doesn't fall back to timer mode. So, with the exception of the patch above: Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Cheers! Will -- 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