On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 09:55:34PM +0800, Deng-Cheng Zhu wrote:
> This patch is the HW perf event support. To enable this feature, we can
> not choose the SMTC kernel; Oprofile should be disabled; kernel
> performance events be selected. Then we can enable it in Kernel type menu.
>
> Oprofile for MIPS platforms initializes irq at arch init time. Currently
> we do not change this logic to allow PMU reservation.
>
> If a platform has EIC, we can use the irq base and perf counter irq
> offset defines for the interrupt controller in mipspmu_get_irq().
>
> Besides generic hardware events and cache events, raw events are also
> supported by this patch. Please refer to processor core software user's
> manual and the comments for mipsxx_pmu_map_raw_event() for more details.
This looks good to me. I'm not familiar with MIPS so I can't offer many
comments in that respect but as a general question, is there a reason that
OProfile can't be enabled as well? In ARM we have a method to reserve the PMU
so that we can build both but only one can run at the same time. Recently,
Will Deacon has posted a patch series that makes OProfile use perf events
as the counter backend so you could even use both at the same time.
Jamie
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