[PATCH 6/7] sh: oprofile: Use perf-events oprofile backend

Robert Richter robert.richter at amd.com
Wed Oct 6 14:35:49 EDT 2010


On 04.10.10 16:44:24, Matt Fleming wrote:
> Now that we've got a generic perf-events based oprofile backend we might
> as well make use of it seeing as SH doesn't do anything special with its
> oprofile backend. Also introduce a new CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS symbol so
> that we can fallback to using the timer interrupt for oprofile if the
> CPU doesn't support perf events.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt at console-pimps.org>
> ---
>  arch/sh/Kconfig            |   13 +++++
>  arch/sh/oprofile/Makefile  |    4 ++
>  arch/sh/oprofile/common.c  |  109 ++++---------------------------------------
>  arch/sh/oprofile/op_impl.h |   33 -------------
>  4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 arch/sh/oprofile/op_impl.h

This patch looks good.

We might merge it with patch 7/7.

-Robert

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