Re: [PATCH 0/1] OMAP gptimer based event monitor driver for oprofile

2009-01-09 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
On Thursday 08 January 2009 22:19:02 ext Woodruff, Richard wrote: > Hi, > > > Current revisions of Cortex-A8 core have a hardware bug in performance > > monitoring unit, which makes it very unreliable in Oprofile. > > > > We discussed this problem offlist with Richard Woodruff some time ago and > >

RE: [PATCH 0/1] OMAP gptimer based event monitor driver for oprofile

2009-01-08 Thread Woodruff, Richard
Hi, > Current revisions of Cortex-A8 core have a hardware bug in performance > monitoring unit, which makes it very unreliable in Oprofile. > > We discussed this problem offlist with Richard Woodruff some time ago and he > suggested to use GPTIMER to get better event samples collection frequency,

[PATCH 0/1] OMAP gptimer based event monitor driver for oprofile

2009-01-08 Thread Siarhei Siamashka
Hi, Current revisions of Cortex-A8 core have a hardware bug in performance monitoring unit, which makes it very unreliable in Oprofile. We discussed this problem offlist with Richard Woodruff some time ago and he suggested to use GPTIMER to get better event samples collection frequency, comparabl