linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] powerpc/perf: Use PVR rather than oprofile field to determine CPU version

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Date:   Fri, 29 Jul 2022 23:02:36 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Rashmica Gupta <rashmica.g@...il.com>,
        Kajol Jain <kjain@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] powerpc/perf: Use PVR rather than oprofile field to determine CPU version

On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 16:37:17 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> From: Rashmica Gupta <rashmica.g@...il.com>
> 
> Currently the perf CPU backend drivers detect what CPU they're on using
> cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type.
> 
> Although that works, it's a bit crufty to be using oprofile related fields,
> especially seeing as oprofile is more or less unused these days.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/2] powerpc/perf: Use PVR rather than oprofile field to determine CPU version
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/ec3eb9d941a98f4c0dac263110729680a734279b
[2/2] powerpc: Remove remaining parts of oprofile
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/62ccae78820b25a0ac64bb0f648388ec834fcb3c

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