Fwd: [PATCH] powerpc: disable OProfile for iSeries

[Michael Ellerman]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:32, Kelly Daly wrote:
> disable OProfile in Kconfig for iSeries to prevent hangs.  OProfile was not
> originally intended to work with legacy iSeries.
>
> diff -urpN linux-2.6.15.4/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Kconfig
> linux-2.6.15.4_patch/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Kconfig ---
> linux-2.6.15.4/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Kconfig	2006-02-10 18:22:48.000000000
> +1100 +++ linux-2.6.15.4_patch/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Kconfig	2006-02-23
> 13:09:00.000000000 +1100 @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
>  config PROFILING
> +	depends on !PPC_ISERIES

We've been trying to avoid !ISERIES compile time checks because they're a 
barrier to the mythical combined kernel. I haven't looked at the oprofile 
code, but is there an easy way to turn this into a 
firmware_has_feature(ISERIES) check?

cheers

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