Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC, PATCH] CELL PPU Oprofile SPU profiling updated patch | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:49:06 +1100 |
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On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:28 -0800, Carl Love wrote: > This is the first update to the patch previously posted by Maynard > Johnson as "PATCH 4/4. Add support to OProfile for profiling CELL". > > There are still a few items from the comments being discussed > specifically how to profile the dynamic code for the SPFS context > switch > code and how to deal with dynamic code stubs for library support. Our > proposal is to assign the samples from the SPFS and dynamic library > code > to an anonymous sample bucket. The support for properly handling the > symbol extraction in these cases would be deferred to a later SDK. > > There is also a bug in profiling overlay code that we are > investigating. > > Subject: Add support to OProfile for profiling Cell BE SPUs > > From: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com> > > This patch updates the existing arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_cell.c > to add in the SPU profiling capabilities. In addition, a 'cell' > subdirectory > was added to arch/powerpc/oprofile to hold Cell-specific SPU profiling > code. > > Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com>
Patch got mangled. You seem to be using evolution, make sure you use the "Preformat" style when posting a patch.
Ben.
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