Kevin, On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:13:18PM -0500, Kevin Corry wrote: > > Here are a few short bug-fixes and cleanups for the latest perfmon2 patches. > > 1/6 > >From Anton Blanchard: > Reserve two TIF flags for perfmon2 and shift them into the low 16 bits > so we can use single assembly instructions to create constants based off > them. > (Anton is talking with Paul Mackerras about getting the two perfmon2 TIF > flags > reserved for the powerpc architecture.) > Glad you took a look at that. Phil helped me with the first cut. I don't know if there is something special about the first 16 bits on TIF. I was under the impression there is something going on on x86_64/i386, but maybe not on PPC.
> 2/6 > The "next available" system call numbers on powerpc changed for the 2.6.21 > kernel. Sorry about that, I missed that for PPC. > > 3/6 > Remove all trailing whitespace. > > > 4/6 > Check the return value from pfm_init_sysfs(). With the integration of > kobjects into the perfmon data structures, sysfs is required for normal > operation. > > 5/6 > Remove redundant "set->sw_next = NULL" line. > > 6/6 > Add a call to pfm_pmu_conf->unload_context() (if available) to the error path > in __pfm_load_context(). > Thanks for the bug fixes. I will apply all patches to my source tree. -- -Stephane _______________________________________________ perfmon mailing list [email protected] http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/perfmon/
