question on FSL_EMB perf
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Jun 11 07:28:11 AEST 2015
On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 23:14 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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.
Both drivers can be used on either 32 or 64 bits.
-Scott
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