Re: [PATCH 00/18] drivers: Remove oprofile and dcookies
Al Viro <[email protected]> Sat, 16 Jan 2021 01:48:10 +0000
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.oprofile |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 05:04:24PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote: > Hello, > > The "oprofile" user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support > any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to > the perf interfaces. > > Remove oprofile and dcookies (whose only user is oprofile) support from > the kernel. > > This was suggested here [1] earlier. > > This is build/boot tested by kernel test robot (Intel) and Linaro's > Tuxmake[2] for a lot of architectures and no failures were reported. fs/* side is trivial (and trivially correct). Acked-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>