| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Message-Id: <200811251700.30926.arnd@arndb.de> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:00:30 +0100 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> To: Carl Love <cel@...ibm.com> Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, oprofile-list@...ts.sourceforge.net, cel <cel@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, cbe-oss-dev <cbe-oss-dev@...abs.org> Subject: Re: [Patch 0/3] OProfile SPU event profiling support for IBM Cell processor On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Carl Love wrote: > This patch set consists of two kernel patches and one user level patch > to add SPU event based profiling support to OProfile for the IBM Cell > processor. The first patch in the series is the user level patch that > adds the needed events and event checking to the user tool. The second > patch is the first of two kernel patches. It makes some structural > changes to the kernel code to make it easier to add the specific > functions for doing SPU event profiling. The first kernel patch does > not make any functional changes. The third patch in the series is the > second kernel patch where the actual SPU event profiling code support is > added to the kernel. Thanks for your submission! I can't comment on the oprofile user code, but I have some comments on the implementation in the third patch. Are the patches interdependent, or will old versions of the oprofile tool work with new kernels and vice versa? Arnd <>< -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists