[RFC, PATCH 0/4] Add support to OProfile for profiling Cell BE SPUs -- update

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Jan 30 19:37:07 EST 2007


On Monday 29 January 2007 20:45, Maynard Johnson wrote:
> On December 14, 2006, I posted a patch that added support to the 
> OProfile kernel driver for profiling Cell SPUs.  There have been some 
> changes/fixes to this patch since the original posting (including 
> forward porting from 2.6.18-based kernel to 2.6.20-rc1), so I am 
> reposting the patch for review now.  This patch relies upon the 
> following patches that have not been accepted yet:
>    1. oprofile cleanup patch (submitted on Nov 27)
>    2. Fix for PPU profiling (not submitted yet, since it depends on #1)
>    3. SPU task notification patch (last submitted on Jan 26)
> 

Sorry for taking so much time before reviewing this. I knew it would
be a long patch that requires time to go through in detail (though
certainly not nearly as much time as it took you to write it), so I
kept procrastinating.

	Arnd <><



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