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

[Matt Fleming]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:45:51AM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> On 27.09.10 18:26:27, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > 
> > I don't see why we should pollute the perf namespace with a function
> > that is only being used inside the SH oprofile code? There would be
> > exactly one use of this function and I doubt the perf guys will want
> > this function exposed. In it's current state, it really is no use to any
> > architecture other than SH.
> > 
> > We can always add a generic perf_pmu_name() function later if needed,
> > but it's definitely not needed at the moment.
> 
> Ok, so then let's implement sh_pmu_name() in
> arch/sh/oprofile/common.c, we import asm/perf_event.h to get access to
> struct sh_pmu. This could be implemented as a static function then and
> we also get rid of this interface thing.

That seems OK to me s'long as Paul (the author of the perf events code
for SH) doesn't have a problem with us exposing the struct sh_pmu *
outside of arch/sh/kernel/perf_event.c