* Benjamin Herrenschmidt b...@kernel.crashing.org wrote:
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 16:27 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
I think it would be nice to have more platform support in .31.
Perfcounters is a brand-new feature so there's no risk of
regression. In the end it will depend on Linus to pull
* Paul Mackerras pau...@samba.org wrote:
Ingo Molnar writes:
Note, i've created a new branch, tip:perfcounters/powerpc, so we can
keep these things separate and Ben can pull them too. I see there
was some review feedback - do you want to send a v2 version perhaps?
Kumar's comments
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 16:21 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
This depends on the generic atomic64_t patches, which are now in
Linus' tree. Ingo, if you're putting these in, please pull Linus'
tree in first.
Note, i've created a new branch, tip:perfcounters/powerpc, so we can
keep these
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 16:27 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
I think it would be nice to have more platform support in .31.
Perfcounters is a brand-new feature so there's no risk of
regression. In the end it will depend on Linus to pull of course,
and BenH can veto it too if he'd like no more
This enables the perf_counter subsystem on 32-bit powerpc. Since we
don't have any support for hardware counters on 32-bit powerpc yet,
only software counters can be used.
Besides selecting HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS for 32-bit powerpc as well as
64-bit, the main thing this does is add an implementation
* Paul Mackerras pau...@samba.org wrote:
This depends on the generic atomic64_t patches, which are now in
Linus' tree. Ingo, if you're putting these in, please pull Linus'
tree in first.
yes, i already did that earlier today - so all should be fine with
the lib/atomic64.c dependency.
On Jun 17, 2009, at 6:50 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype b/arch/powerpc/
platforms/Kconfig.cputype
index cca6b4f..dd9f3ec 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
config PPC64
* Paul Mackerras pau...@samba.org wrote:
This depends on the generic atomic64_t patches, which are now in
Linus' tree. Ingo, if you're putting these in, please pull Linus'
tree in first.
Note, i've created a new branch, tip:perfcounters/powerpc, so we can
keep these things separate and
On Jun 17, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Paul Mackerras pau...@samba.org wrote:
This depends on the generic atomic64_t patches, which are now in
Linus' tree. Ingo, if you're putting these in, please pull Linus'
tree in first.
Note, i've created a new branch,
* Kumar Gala ga...@kernel.crashing.org wrote:
On Jun 17, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Paul Mackerras pau...@samba.org wrote:
This depends on the generic atomic64_t patches, which are now in
Linus' tree. Ingo, if you're putting these in, please pull
Linus' tree in first.
Kumar Gala writes:
On Jun 17, 2009, at 6:50 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
+config PPC_HAVE_PMU_SUPPORT
+ bool
what does this mean?
At the moment it means that arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counters.c works
for at least some processors in the selected processor family.
+
+config
Ingo Molnar writes:
Note, i've created a new branch, tip:perfcounters/powerpc, so we can
keep these things separate and Ben can pull them too. I see there
was some review feedback - do you want to send a v2 version perhaps?
Kumar's comments seemed to me to be wanting changes to accommodate
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