[GIT PULL] perf_event/tracing/powerpc patches from Anton Blanchard

Ingo Molnar mingo at elte.hu
Sun Nov 8 20:35:18 EST 2009


* Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 07:55 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Here is a series of patches from Anton Blanchard that implement some 
> > > nice tracing and perf_event features on powerpc.  One of them is 
> > > generic perf_event stuff (adding software events for alignment faults 
> > > and instruction emulation faults).
> > > 
> > > Since this touches the perf_event and tracing subsystems as well as 
> > > the powerpc architecture code, I think the best way forward is for 
> > > both Ingo and Ben to pull it into their trees.  I have based it on the 
> > > most recent point in Linus' tree that Ingo had pulled into his perf 
> > > branches (as of yesterday or so).
> > 
> > The generic perf bits look good to me - can pull it if Ben OKs the 
> > PowerPC bits.
> 
> Yup. Just went through all of them, they look fine. I also test built on
> a number of default configs and it seems to pass.

Pulled into tip:perf/powerpc (will keep it in a separate branch for a 
few days then it can go into perf/core), thanks guys!

	Ingo


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