[PATCH] powerpc: adjust oprofile_cpu_type

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Fri Apr 24 03:52:10 EST 2009


On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:40:12PM -0500, Mike Wolf wrote:
> Resending.  the patch was munged last time.
> 
> 
> Oprofile is changing the naming it is using for the compatibility modes.
> Instead of having compat-power<x>, oprofile will go to family naming
> convention and use compat-v<x>.  Currently only compat-v1 will be
> defined.

Compat V1 of what? powerpc64? IBM powerpc64 PMC?  The performance
monitors are not architected, to give them a version number without
vendor information seems weird.

Also, doesn't this break compatibility with existing userspace tools?


-Olof



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