[PATCH] powerpc: oprofile support for POWER6

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jun 8 08:59:53 EST 2006


>  	/*
> -	 * SIHV / SIPR bits are only implemented on POWER4+ (GQ) and above.
> -	 * However we disable it on all POWER4 until we verify it works
> -	 * (I was seeing some strange behaviour last time I tried).
> -	 *
> -	 * It has been verified to work on POWER5 so we enable it there.
> -	 */

The patched code doesn't handle GQ at all.  Is this on purpose?  Add a
similar comment to the CPU feature tables perhaps?


Segher




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