[Cbe-oss-dev] Support for embedded SPU ELF in dynamic libs

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Saturday 03 February 2007 21:20, Maynard Johnson wrote:
> Obviously, I had never even considered this scenario before, and none of 
> the samples and testcases we've used during development have employed 
> such a model.  Unfortunately, this model does not fit well with the 
> standard OProfile model of one application binary and, possibly, one 
> other binary image (i.e., shared library) from which the samples were 
> actually taken.  It's a fairly minor issue to add the extra information 
> into the kernel event buffer; but I suspect that adding a third column 
> to the final profile report will be a much greater challenge.  I propose 
> that we move this patch forward without this support, but continue to 
> work on fixing this deficiency.

Please do the change in the kernel anyway. I really want to have the
oprofile code upstream, but I don't want to have to change the interface
later. It's fine with me if the report tool does not make use of the
information at first and we add that at a later point.

	Arnd <><