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
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]>