Vince,
This patch does not apply at all against the current GIT tree.
Could you resubmit with an updated patch?
Thanks.
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Vince Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> The patch below (against the linux kernel) is needed on older SPARC
> machines in order to use perfmon2. Without the patch, the machines will
> actually panic at boot as they try to run strcmp() on uninitialized
> memory as the pmu name is never set.
>
> With this patch, I can use perfmon2 on an UltraSPARC2 based machine I
> have.
>
> Unfortunately the UltraSPARC2 does not have a pmu interrupt :(
> Would it make sense at some point to have a common infrastructure for
> using sampling to attempt to estimate 64-bit counts on machines without an
> overflow interrupt? More machines than I expected have this problem.
>
> Also, I am still working on the proper fix for Niagara to handle overflow
> properly. It should be possible, I just haven't had time to work on it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Vince
>
> --- arch/sparc64/kernel/cpu.c.orig 2008-09-11 11:17:56.000000000 -0400
> +++ arch/sparc64/kernel/cpu.c 2008-09-11 11:17:23.000000000 -0400
> @@ -50,17 +50,17 @@
> #define NSPARCFPU ARRAY_SIZE(linux_sparc_fpu)
>
> static struct cpu_iu_info linux_sparc_chips[] = {
> - { 0x17, 0x10, "TI UltraSparc I (SpitFire)"},
> - { 0x22, 0x10, "TI UltraSparc I (SpitFire)"},
> - { 0x17, 0x11, "TI UltraSparc II (BlackBird)"},
> - { 0x17, 0x12, "TI UltraSparc IIi (Sabre)"},
> - { 0x17, 0x13, "TI UltraSparc IIe (Hummingbird)"},
> - { 0x3e, 0x14, "TI UltraSparc III (Cheetah)"},
> - { 0x3e, 0x15, "TI UltraSparc III+ (Cheetah+)"},
> - { 0x3e, 0x16, "TI UltraSparc IIIi (Jalapeno)"},
> - { 0x3e, 0x18, "TI UltraSparc IV (Jaguar)"},
> - { 0x3e, 0x19, "TI UltraSparc IV+ (Panther)"},
> - { 0x3e, 0x22, "TI UltraSparc IIIi+ (Serrano)"},
> + { 0x17, 0x10, "TI UltraSparc I (SpitFire)", "ultra12"},
> + { 0x22, 0x10, "TI UltraSparc I (SpitFire)", "ultra12"},
> + { 0x17, 0x11, "TI UltraSparc II (BlackBird)", "ultra12"},
> + { 0x17, 0x12, "TI UltraSparc IIi (Sabre)", "ultra12"},
> + { 0x17, 0x13, "TI UltraSparc IIe (Hummingbird)", "ultra12"},
> + { 0x3e, 0x14, "TI UltraSparc III (Cheetah)", "ultra3"},
> + { 0x3e, 0x15, "TI UltraSparc III+ (Cheetah+)", "ultra3+"},
> + { 0x3e, 0x16, "TI UltraSparc IIIi (Jalapeno)", "ultra3i"},
> + { 0x3e, 0x18, "TI UltraSparc IV (Jaguar)", "ultra4"},
> + { 0x3e, 0x19, "TI UltraSparc IV+ (Panther)", "ultra4+"},
> + { 0x3e, 0x22, "TI UltraSparc IIIi+ (Serrano)", "ultra3+"},
> };
>
> #define NSPARCCHIPS ARRAY_SIZE(linux_sparc_chips)
> @@ -142,6 +142,7 @@
> manuf, impl);
> }
> sparc_cpu_type = "Unknown CPU";
> + sparc_pmu_type = "Unknown PMU";
> }
>
> for (i = 0; i < NSPARCFPU; i++) {
>
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