On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 16:18 -0800, Carl Love wrote: > This patch adds the SPU event profiling support for the IBM Cell > processor to the list of available events. The opcontrol script > patches include a test to see if there is a new cell specific file > in the kernel oprofile file system. If the file exists, then the > kernel supports SPU event profiling. > > Signed-off-by: Carl Love > > Index: oprofile-cvs/doc/oprofile.xml > =================================================================== > --- oprofile-cvs.orig/doc/oprofile.xml > +++ oprofile-cvs/doc/oprofile.xml > @@ -123,6 +123,10 @@ For information on how to use OProfile's > of 2.6.22 or more recent. Additionally, full support of SPE profiling requires a BFD library > from binutils code dated January 2007 or later. To ensure the proper BFD support exists, run > the configure utility with --with-target=cell-be. > + > + Profiling the Cell Broadband Engine using SPU events requires a kernel version of 2.6.TBD or ^^^ Not sure if you missed that, or it's still TBD, but careful it doesn't get merged like that. cheers -- Michael Ellerman OzLabs, IBM Australia Development Lab wwweb: http://michael.ellerman.id.au phone: +61 2 6212 1183 (tie line 70 21183) We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. - S.M.A.R.T Person