On 08.10.10 20:46:15, 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. > Matt Fleming (7): > perf: Add helper function to return number of counters > perf: New helper function for pmu name > oprofile: Make op_name_from_perf_id() global > ARM: oprofile: Rename op_arm to oprofile_perf > ARM: oprofile: Move non-ARM code into separate init/exit > oprofile: Abstract the perf-events backend > sh: oprofile: Use perf-events oprofile backend > > arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c | 6 + > arch/arm/oprofile/Makefile | 4 + > arch/arm/oprofile/common.c | 309 +----------------------------------- > arch/sh/Kconfig | 13 ++ > arch/sh/kernel/perf_event.c | 18 ++ > arch/sh/oprofile/Makefile | 4 + > arch/sh/oprofile/common.c | 115 +++----------- > arch/sh/oprofile/op_impl.h | 33 ---- > drivers/oprofile/oprofile_perf.c | 326 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/oprofile.h | 7 + > include/linux/perf_event.h | 2 + > kernel/perf_event.c | 5 + > 12 files changed, 412 insertions(+), 430 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 arch/sh/oprofile/op_impl.h > create mode 100644 drivers/oprofile/oprofile_perf.c Thanks Matt, I applied your patches to the oprofile tree and merged them with the core branch. As I already wrote, I modified patch #4 to fix the compile breakage. The patches are available for testing in git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile.git core Thanks again, -Robert -- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Operating System Research Center -- 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