From: Mike Wolf <mjw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: adjust oprofile_cpu_type
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:56:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1240523816.12000.2.camel@mx3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090423175210.GB4732@lixom.net>
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 12:52 -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:40:12PM -0500, Mike Wolf wrote:
> > Resending. the patch was munged last time.
> >
> >
> > Oprofile is changing the naming it is using for the compatibility modes.
> > Instead of having compat-power<x>, oprofile will go to family naming
> > convention and use compat-v<x>. Currently only compat-v1 will be
> > defined.
>
> Compat V1 of what? powerpc64? IBM powerpc64 PMC?
IBM powerpc PMC
> The performance
> monitors are not architected, to give them a version number without
> vendor information seems weird.
The current ones all fall into one family and they may be architected in
the future.
>
> Also, doesn't this break compatibility with existing userspace tools?
AFAIK there is nothing else that uses these. Oprofile patch was
rejected and this new naming was suggested from that community.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-23 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-22 23:40 [PATCH] powerpc: adjust oprofile_cpu_type Mike Wolf
2009-04-23 3:47 ` Kumar Gala
2009-04-23 17:52 ` Olof Johansson
2009-04-23 21:56 ` Mike Wolf [this message]
2009-04-23 22:09 ` Olof Johansson
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2009-04-17 19:48 Mike Wolf
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