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

[Maynard Johnson]

Arnd Bergmann wrote:

>On Saturday 03 February 2007 21:20, Maynard Johnson wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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OK.

>	Arnd <><
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