Re: [PATCH] Add support for Xtensa architecture

Max Filippov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.oprofile
Message-ID <CAMo8Bf+yX=C3_Tc3QG+18tgfS_Mv9vQxOhcYb6WzCw0arZk=VQ@mail.gmail.com>
William,

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:08 PM, William Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:
> You can take a look at what was done for the aarch64 cortex a53
> and cortex a57 to get an idea of other changes required to support the processor.
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/oprofile/oprofile/ci/34d0065a1a790fc2be05a5ef1d8b0bbf28b814fe/

Thanks for the pointer.

> However, the kernel perf support is needed to provide events for the processor for oprofile to work.
> Does the xtensa architecture provide some basic counter events such as cycle and instruction count?

Yes, it usually does have cycle counter and it may have other
configurable performance counters.

-- 
Thanks.
-- Max

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