[Patch 0/3] Overview, OProfile SPU event profiling support for IBM Cell processor

[Carl Love]

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 16:48 +0100, Robert Richter wrote:
> On 01.12.08 16:18:26, Carl Love wrote:
> > This is a rework of the previously posted set of patches.
> > 
> > Patch 1 is the user level patch to add the SPU events to the user
> > OProfile tool.  
> > 
> > Patch 2 is a kernel patch to do code clean up and restructuring to make
> > it easier to add the new SPU event profiling support.  This patch makes
> > no functional changes.
> > 
> > Patch 3 is a kernel patch to add the SPU event profiling support.
> 
> I applied patch 2 & 3 to:
> 
>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile.git cell
> 
> The patches did not apply cleanly. I had to change the path to
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/, fix cell/pr_util.h and did some whitespace
> cleanups. Please run your tests on the cell branch.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Robert
> 

I pulled down the git tree, compiled and installed it.  I tested it
against the OProfile testsuite, which includes SPU event profiling
tests.  Everything passed.  The patch I submitted was against a 2.6.26
tree.  You are now on a 2.6.28 tree so perhaps that is why the patch did
not apply cleanly.  The patch has been out there for some time.  

            Carl Love