[PATCHv4 5/5] arm64: Trace emulation of AArch32 legacy instructions

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Nov 14 10:33:48 PST 2014


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:44:52AM +0000, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> Introduce an event to trace the usage of emulated instructions. The
> trace event is intended to help identify and encourage the migration
> of legacy software using the emulation features.
> 
> Use this event to trace usage of swp and CP15 barrier emulation.
> 
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal at arm.com>

I can't comment much on trace stuff but I'm ok with the patch:

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>



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