question on FSL_EMB perf

Peter Zijlstra peterz at infradead.org
Thu Jun 11 07:14:58 AEST 2015


On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 15:13 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:

> What sort of "nesting nonsense" would we get on ppc32?  I wasn't 
> trying to say that the pseudo-NMIs didn't count -- I was pointing out 
> that we don't even have that on ppc32.

Oh, I was not aware ppc32 did not have that.

> > # git grep nmi_enter arch/powerpc/
> > arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c:                nmi_enter();
> > arch/powerpc/perf/core-fsl-emb.c:               nmi_enter();
> 
> nmi_enter() only gets called when perf_intr_is_nmi() returns non-zero, 
> which only happens on ppc64.

ok, so fsl-emb is ppc32 and ppc64, not confusing at all this stuff.


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