[PATCH 2/5] arm/oprofile: reserve the PMU when starting

Jamie Iles jamie at jamieiles.com
Fri Feb 5 04:13:50 EST 2010


On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 01:01:54AM -0500, George G. Davis wrote:
> From 18018f4e439ebcf9358790887502764b18459c9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: George G. Davis <gdavis at mvista.com>
> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:38:01 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] ARM: Fix ARM11 MPCore OProfile breakage due to ARM patch 5901/2
> 
> The recent "fe6c67f ARM: 5901/2: arm/oprofile: reserve the PMU when
> starting" commit broke OProfile support on ARM11 MPCore targets by
> adding a misplaced "} else {" clause in function em_start() which
> results in a call to release_pmu() even though the PMU is in use
> which in turn results in an oops while using OProfile.  Removing
> the stray else clause fixes the problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis at mvista.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/oprofile/op_model_mpcore.c |    1 -
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/oprofile/op_model_mpcore.c b/arch/arm/oprofile/op_model_mpcore.c
> index f73ce87..0d4f099 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/oprofile/op_model_mpcore.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/oprofile/op_model_mpcore.c
> @@ -246,7 +246,6 @@ static int em_start(void)
>  		if (ret) {
>  			arm11_release_interrupts(pmu_irqs->irqs,
>  						 pmu_irqs->num_irqs);
> -		} else {
>  			release_pmu(pmu_irqs);
>  			pmu_irqs = NULL;
>  		}
> 
> 
> --
Hi George,

Good catch. Looks good to me.

Jamie



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