Maynard informed me that neither the oprofile kernel module nor oprofile
userspace has been updated to support that "legacy" oprofile module
interface for power8, which is indicated by "ppc64/power8." This results
in no samples. The solution is to default to the "timer" type, instead.
The raw entry also should be updated, as "ppc64/ibm-compat-v1" indicates
to oprofile userspace to use "compatibility events" which are obsolete
in ISA 2.07.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <n...@us.ibm.com>
---
Ben, if this seems reasonable to you, it would be great to get this into
3.10.
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
index c60bbec..b8808bc 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ static struct cpu_spec __initdata cpu_specs[] = {
.icache_bsize = 128,
.dcache_bsize = 128,
.oprofile_type = PPC_OPROFILE_POWER4,
- .oprofile_cpu_type = "ppc64/ibm-compat-v1",
+ .oprofile_cpu_type = 0,
.cpu_setup = __setup_cpu_power8,
.cpu_restore = __restore_cpu_power8,
.platform = "power8",
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ static struct cpu_spec __initdata cpu_specs[] = {
.dcache_bsize = 128,
.num_pmcs = 6,
.pmc_type = PPC_PMC_IBM,
- .oprofile_cpu_type = "ppc64/power8",
+ .oprofile_cpu_type = 0,
.oprofile_type = PPC_OPROFILE_POWER4,
.cpu_setup = __setup_cpu_power8,
.cpu_restore = __restore_cpu_power8,
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