On Saturday 03 September 2011 12:16 AM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 05:22:35PM +0530, Avik Sil wrote: >>> See whether this works: >>> >>> apt-get install linux-linaro-tools-`uname -r` >>> perf stat apt-get update # or something >>> >>> >>> I think there was an issue with a patch which enabled perf on omap4 >>> but broke it on all other platforms. This patch is present in the >>> linux-linaro-natty tree, but I can't see it in -oneiric. I think >>> it may have been dropped / backed out from the oneiric tree because >>> of the problems it caused: >>> >>> In linux-linaro-natty/master: >>> commit 457520e3fbce80812c6901c226ec242fdb906c63 >>> (arm: pmu: support pmu/perf on OMAP4) >> >> The perf patch was dropped from linux-linaro-2.6.39 onwards as it >> apparently caused Panda boot hang >> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux-linaro/+bug/802693). >>> >>> Mark Rutland posted a patch to fix the introduced problem -- >>> search the linaro-dev archives for >>> [PATCH] Fix NULL-dereference introduced by OMAP4 PMU patch > > Avik, because of your quoting style I'm not sure you are ignoring > Dave's point here or if you are saying that there was a further problem > that caused the entire patch to be dropped? See > > http://www.mail-archive.com/linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org/msg04791.html
Actually, Mark's patch applies on top of the perf patch and as the perf patch has been dropped, Mark's patch is irrelevant now. Regards, Avik _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
