I have a question about your "generalise" patchset: Do you see any issues or needed changes for the existing x86 (or sparc) Perf and Oprofile code by merging your patchset? Deng-Cheng 2010/10/5 Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 05:09:14PM +0800, Deng-Cheng Zhu wrote: >> o Remove function code from pmu.h, keep them duplicated in Oprofile and >> Perf-events. The duplication would be resolved by the idea of using >> Perf-events as the Oprofile backend. I'll submit a separate patchset to >> do this after this one gets merged. > > I dunno if you're aware of this but I've been working on a perf > backend for OProfile. Currently only ARM and SH are making use of it, > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=128435815708349&w=2 > > It would be trivial to add MIPS support but I suspect that would > require you to rework this patch series. However, what we should try > to avoid is duplicating any effort of getting perf and OProfile > working together. > > Would you mind waiting for my patch series to be merged before > starting work on your perf-OProfile patchset for MIPS? Alternatively, > you can base your work on, > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/sh-2.6.git perf-oprofile >
