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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/11] oprofile: i386 support for stack trace sampling
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On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 18:03, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com> wrote:
> >
> > oprofile i386 arch updates, including some internal
> > API changes and support for stack trace sampling.
>
> It needs this to compile and link on x86_64. No idea if it works...

Clearly, there has been zero testing on x86_64. How about
we just disable the backtrace code on that platform until
it's been tested?

Greg.
--
Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.

Disable the oprofile backtrace feature pulled into x86_64 from
i386 code, until it has been tested on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
---
arch/i386/oprofile/init.c | 4 ++++
arch/x86_64/oprofile/Makefile | 1 +
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

Index: linux/arch/x86_64/oprofile/Makefile
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/oprofile/Makefile 2004-10-19 07:53:43.%N +1000
+++ linux/arch/x86_64/oprofile/Makefile 2004-11-11 18:19:37.%N +1100
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
#
# oprofile for x86-64.
# Just reuse the one from i386.
+# Except for the backtrace code, which is not yet tested
#

obj-$(CONFIG_OPROFILE) += oprofile.o
Index: linux/arch/i386/oprofile/init.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/i386/oprofile/init.c 2004-11-10 20:53:24.%N +1100
+++ linux/arch/i386/oprofile/init.c 2004-11-11 18:20:13.%N +1100
@@ -18,8 +18,10 @@
extern int nmi_init(struct oprofile_operations * ops);
extern int nmi_timer_init(struct oprofile_operations * ops);
extern void nmi_exit(void);
+#ifndef CONFIG_X86_64
extern void x86_backtrace(struct pt_regs * const regs, struct task_struct *,
unsigned int depth);
+#endif


void __init oprofile_arch_init(struct oprofile_operations * ops)
@@ -33,7 +35,9 @@ void __init oprofile_arch_init(struct op
if (ret < 0)
ret = nmi_timer_init(ops);
#endif
+#ifndef CONFIG_X86_64
ops->backtrace = x86_backtrace;
+#endif
}

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