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

[Robert Richter]

On 13.09.10 02:07:37, 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt at console-pimps.org>
> ---
>  arch/sh/Kconfig             |    2 +-
>  arch/sh/kernel/perf_event.c |    8 +++
>  arch/sh/oprofile/Makefile   |    2 +-
>  arch/sh/oprofile/common.c   |  104 ++++--------------------------------------
>  arch/sh/oprofile/op_impl.h  |   33 --------------
>  5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 129 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 arch/sh/oprofile/op_impl.h
> 
> diff --git a/arch/sh/Kconfig b/arch/sh/Kconfig
> index 33990fa..dc4a017 100644
> --- a/arch/sh/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/sh/Kconfig
> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ config SUPERH
>  	select HAVE_CLK
>  	select HAVE_IDE if HAS_IOPORT
>  	select HAVE_MEMBLOCK
> -	select HAVE_OPROFILE
> +	select HAVE_OPROFILE if PERF_EVENTS

Same here, we might want to fall back to timer mode.

>  	select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
>  	select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
>  	select HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG
> diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/sh/kernel/perf_event.c
> index 2cb9ad5..3c3fc9a 100644
> --- a/arch/sh/kernel/perf_event.c
> +++ b/arch/sh/kernel/perf_event.c
> @@ -59,6 +59,14 @@ static inline int sh_pmu_initialized(void)
>  	return !!sh_pmu;
>  }
>  
> +const char *sh_pmu_name(void)
> +{
> +	if (!sh_pmu)
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	return sh_pmu->name;
> +}

Couldn't we make this a generic function like perf_num_counters()?

[...]

>  void oprofile_arch_exit(void)
>  {
> -	if (model && model->exit)
> -		model->exit();
> +	oprofile_perf_exit();
>  }

This will probalby cause a section missmatch. Use __exit marker for
oprofile_arch_exit().

-Robert

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