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Date:	Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:02:39 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@...ial.fi>
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, phil.el@...adoo.fr,
	oprofile-list@...ts.sf.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [2.6.24 patch] restore ARMv6 OProfile support

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:45:26AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> I never got a response on my message, but I have just receieved:
> 
> | Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:05:00 +0100
> | From: Joerg Wagner <wagner@...neclab.eu>
> | To: ARM Linux Mailing List <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk>
> | Subject: 2.6.24-rc7 : oprofile on MPCore broken
> | 
> | Hello,
> | 
> | just tried to use oprofile on 2.6.24-rc7.
> | It does not detect the right processor
> |  (/dev/oprofile/cpu_type contains "timer").
> | 
> | As I don't know exactly, how the string
> | "arm/mpcore" from arch/arm/oprofile/op_model_mpcore.c
> | gets feeded into that file, maybe someone else can help ?
> 
> So people are hitting the resulting mess created by 09cadedbdc01f1a4bea1f427d4fb4642eaa19da9.
> Can we please fix this regression one way or another please?
> 
> I don't particularly like stuffing the options into some random place
> in the architectures Kconfig file when they should stay along side the
> instrumentation configuration entries.

Below is the patch I already sent on 28 Dec 2007 that stuffs it into 
Kconfig.instrumentation.

Technically it shouldn't make any difference whether this patch or
Mathieu's patch that stuffs it into arch/arm/Kconfig gets applied, but 
one of them should be applied for 2.6.24 (plus either mine or Mathieu's 
fix for the blackfin HARDWARE_PM support broken by the same commit).

I found the bugs in Mathieu's commit 09cadedbdc01f1a4bea1f427d4fb4642eaa19da9,
I wrote patches that restore the status quo, Cc'ed all people even
remotely related to this issue, and I opened the Bugzilla bugs required
for getting them on the regression lists. Mathieu wants the regressions
he introduced fixed different from what my patches did and that's not a
problem for me (his patches are also OK).

What went wrong that his regression fixes did not land in Linus' tree?

cu
Adrian


<--  snip  -->


This patch restores the ARMv6 OProfile support that was killed by
commit 09cadedbdc01f1a4bea1f427d4fb4642eaa19da9.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <adrian.bunk@...ial.fi>

---

 kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

7fc221ef169610b5eac98e2ddd641811c0d53e4a 
diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation b/kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation
index 468f47a..4453187 100644
--- a/kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation
+++ b/kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation
@@ -29,2 +29,17 @@ config OPROFILE

+config OPROFILE_ARMV6
+	bool
+	depends on OPROFILE && ARM && CPU_V6 && !SMP
+	default y
+	select OPROFILE_ARM11_CORE
+
+config OPROFILE_MPCORE
+	bool
+	depends on OPROFILE && ARM && CPU_V6 && SMP
+	default y
+	select OPROFILE_ARM11_CORE
+
+config OPROFILE_ARM11_CORE
+	bool
+
 config KPROBES
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