* [PATCH 1/1] oprofile: add a warning for unsuppored CPUs
@ 2006-11-29 18:54 Peter Kjellstrom
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From: Peter Kjellstrom @ 2006-11-29 18:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel; +Cc: trivial, levon
From: Peter Kjellstrom <cap@nsc.liu.se>
Oprofile first tries to setup hardware counter based profiling. If this fails
it falls back to timer mode without any clues as to what went wrong. This
patch adds a warning when no supported CPU is found (typically too new CPU
and/or too old kernel).
Signed-off-by: Peter Kjellstrom <cap@nsc.liu.se>
---
--- a/arch/i386/oprofile/init.c
+++ b/arch/i386/oprofile/init.c
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ int __init oprofile_arch_init(struct opr
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
ret = op_nmi_init(ops);
+ if (ret == -ENODEV)
+ printk(KERN_INFO "oprofile: hardware counters unavailable, unknown cpu.\n");
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
if (ret < 0)
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