From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751765Ab0HWK6F (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:58:05 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:50206 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750725Ab0HWK6D (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:58:03 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:57:59 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Matt Fleming Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Robert Richter , Will Deacon , Paul Mundt , Russell King , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Frederic Weisbecker , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Generalise ARM perf-events backend for oprofile Message-ID: <20100823105759.GA18638@infradead.org> References: <1282560381-7700-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1282560381-7700-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:46:18AM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: > The perf-events backend for OProfile that Will Deacon wrote in > 8c1fc96f6fd1f361428ba805103af0d0eee65179 ("ARM: 6072/1: oprofile: use > perf-events framework as backend") is of use to more architectures > than just ARM. Move the code into drivers/oprofile/ so that SH can use > it instead of the nearly identical copy of its OProfile code. Nice, I didn't know such a backend already existed. Now that you have made it generic we should aim towards making it the only oprofile backend and getting rid of all the duplication.