* Mathieu Desnoyers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > (Robin, can you check if this patch does what is currently intended with > HARDWARE_PM please ? This involves testing with CONFIG_OPROFILE y/m/n.) > > This patch restores the blackfin Hardware Performance Monitor Profiling > support that was killed by > commit 09cadedbdc01f1a4bea1f427d4fb4642eaa19da9. > > Since there seems to be no good reason to behave differently from other > architectures, it now automatically selects the hardware performance counters > whenever the profiling is activated. > > mach-common/irqpanic.c: pm_overflow > calls pm_overflow_handler which is in oprofile/op_model_bf533.c. I doubt that > setting HARDWARE_PM as "m" will work at all, since the pm_overflow_handler > should be in the core kernel image because it is called by irqpanic.c. > > Therefore, I change HARDWARE_PM from a tristate to a bool. > > The whole arch/$(ARCH)/oprofile/ is built depending on CONFIG_OPROFILE. Since > part of the HARDWARE_PM support files sits in this directory, it makes sense > to > also depend on OPROFILE, not only PROFILING. Since OPROFILE already depends on > PROFILING, it is correct to only depend on OPROFILE only. >
This patch header should also include : Problem identified by Adrian Bunk. Patch inspired by the original fix proposed by him. Thanks, Mathieu > Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > arch/blackfin/Kconfig | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > Index: linux-2.6-lttng/arch/blackfin/Kconfig > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/arch/blackfin/Kconfig 2007-12-29 > 11:00:05.000000000 -0500 > +++ linux-2.6-lttng/arch/blackfin/Kconfig 2007-12-29 11:25:39.000000000 > -0500 > @@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ config GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY > bool > default y > > +config HARDWARE_PM > + def_bool y > + depends on OPROFILE > + > source "init/Kconfig" > source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt" > > > -- > Mathieu Desnoyers > Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal > OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
