Return-Path: From: Arnd Bergmann To: Carl Love Subject: Re: [Patch 0/3] OProfile SPU event profiling support for IBM Cell processor Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:00:30 +0100 References: <1227568781.6509.198.camel@carll-linux-desktop> In-Reply-To: <1227568781.6509.198.camel@carll-linux-desktop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <200811251700.30926.arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, cel , linux-kernel , oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net, cbe-oss-dev List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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. =A0The first patch in the series is the user level patch that > adds the needed events and event checking to the user tool. =A0The second > patch is the first of two kernel patches. =A0It makes some structural > changes to the kernel code to make it easier to add the specific > functions for doing SPU event profiling. =A0The first kernel patch does > not make any functional changes. =A0The 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 <><