Re: [PATCH] Remove Powerpc OProfile events the kernel will reject

William Cohen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.oprofile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/19/2015 04:00 PM, Carl E. Love wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 15:13 -0500, William Cohen wrote:

>>
>> Remove unused Power 8 unit masks
>>
>> To prevent people from using PMU events that the kernel would reject
>> on Power 8 commit 34715734fd6f commented out those events.  However,
>> additional checks in oprofile code would note that some of the unit
>> masks were unused due to those commented out events and prevent
>> oprofile tools from running.  The unused unit masks have been
>> commented out to pass these checks.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: William Cohen <[email protected]>
>>
> Looks good.  Thanks.
> 
>                  Carl Love


Okay. the patch is checked in and things should work on Power 8.

-Will

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