[Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC, PATCH 2/4] Add support to OProfile for profiling Cell BE SPUs -- update

Carl Love cel at us.ibm.com
Wed Jan 31 10:51:05 EST 2007


Arnd:

Well most of the patch is simply cleaning up the
pm_rtas_activate_signals() routine.  I would be think
"pm_rtas_activat_signals routine cleanup" would be good.

                   Carl Love


On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 05:08 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 29 January 2007 20:47, Maynard Johnson wrote:
> >   The code was setting up the debug bus for group 21 when profiling on the 
> > event PPU CYCLES.  The debug bus is not actually used by the hardware 
> > performance counters when counting PPU CYCLES.  Setting up the debug bus
> > for PPU CYCLES causes signal routing conflicts on the debug bus when 
> > profiling PPU cycles and another PPU event.  This patch fixes the code to 
> > only setup the debug bus to route the performance signals for the non
> > PPU CYCLE events.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn at us.ibm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll at us.ibm.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann at de.ibm.com>
> 
> Any suggestion for a one-line patch title?
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