linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] perf: oprofile spring cleanup

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Message-Id: <161909565607.1722628.9529859651633898388.b4-ty@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:48:03 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
Cc:     Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>, nathan@...nel.org,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] perf: oprofile spring cleanup

On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:44:04 +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> This small series builds on top of the work that was started with [1].
> 
> It recently became apparent that KVM/arm64 is the last bit of the
> kernel that still uses perf_num_counters().
> 
> As I went ahead to address this, it became obvious that all traces of
> oprofile had been eradicated from all architectures but arm64, s390
> and sh (plus a bit of cruft in the core perf code). With KVM fixed,
> perf_num_counters() and perf_pmu_name() are finally gone.
> 
> [...]

Applied to kvm-arm64/kill_oprofile_dependency, thanks!

[1/5] KVM: arm64: Divorce the perf code from oprofile helpers
      commit: 5421db1be3b11c5e469cce3760d5c8a013a90f2c
[2/5] arm64: Get rid of oprofile leftovers
      commit: e9c74a686a45e54b2e1c4586b14c84f3ee2f2014
[3/5] s390: Get rid of oprofile leftovers
      commit: 8c3f7913a106aa8b94d331cb59709c84a9a1d55b
[4/5] sh: Get rid of oprofile leftovers
      commit: ac21ecf5ad32b89909bee2b50161ce93d6462b7d
[5/5] perf: Get rid of oprofile leftovers
      commit: 7f318847a0f37b96d8927e8d30ae7b8f149b11f1

Cheers,

	M.
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