Fwd: [PATCH] powerpc: disable OProfile for iSeries

[Kelly Daly]

Hey Michael,

I will definitely look into doing it the way that you have mentioned.  In
the interim, however, this is a good solution to stop the hanging problem.

Cheers,
Kelly

On 2/23/06, Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>
> 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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