Commit 5622f295 (x86, perf_counter, bts: Optimize BTS overflow
handling) removed the regs field from struct perf_sample_data and
added a regs parameter to perf_counter_overflow(). This breaks the
build on powerpc as reported by Sachin Sant:
arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c: In function
* Metzger, Markus T markus.t.metz...@intel.com wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Paul Mackerras [mailto:pau...@samba.org]
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 8:45 AM
Markus, please take care in future to mention it in the changelog if
your patches touch definitions used by other
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:30:43AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Metzger, Markus T markus.t.metz...@intel.com wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Paul Mackerras [mailto:pau...@samba.org]
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 8:45 AM
Markus, please take care in future to mention it
* Heiko Carstens heiko.carst...@de.ibm.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:30:43AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Metzger, Markus T markus.t.metz...@intel.com wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Paul Mackerras [mailto:pau...@samba.org]
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 8:45
* Paul Mackerras pau...@samba.org wrote:
Commit 5622f295 (x86, perf_counter, bts: Optimize BTS overflow
handling) removed the regs field from struct perf_sample_data and
added a regs parameter to perf_counter_overflow(). This breaks the
build on powerpc as reported by Sachin Sant:
-Original Message-
From: Paul Mackerras [mailto:pau...@samba.org]
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 8:45 AM
Markus, please take care in future to mention it in the changelog if
your patches touch definitions used by other architectures. If you
could go so far as to use grep a bit more
Ingo Molnar writes:
Paul, you might also want to test the perfcounter bits of -tip on
PowerPC a bit more frequently - this patch was there for 5 days before i
sent it to Linus.
Yes, I'll try to do that in future.
I hope I didn't come across as blaming anyone for anything - that
wasn't my
