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Re: Call graph support for powerpc: msg#00040

Subject: Re: Call graph support for powerpc
I'm pretty sure I've used a recent kernel, unpatched, to do  
backtracing with oprofile.

On Oct 10, 2006, at 15:30, Maynard Johnson wrote:

>
> From my understanding of the current arch/powerpc/oprofile code  
> (looking at a 2.6.18 kernel), it appears to me that the call graph  
> support there would work for both ppc and pp64 processors.
>
> -Maynard
>
> Haruki Dai-r35557 wrote:
>
>> For BookE - e500, Andy Fleming has submit the patch for callgraph  
>> kernel
>> support long time ago, but the patch wasn't actually merged (I don't
>> know why). Anyway, here is the patch, and I am not sure the user  
>> space apps
>> automatically use/enable the .backtrace without modification.
>>
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=2783
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Dai
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: oprofile-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  
>>> [mailto:oprofile-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of  
>>> Maynard Johnson
>>> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 4:19 PM
>>> To: Venkat Subbiah -X (vsubbiah - Piepeople Consulting, Inc. at  
>>> Cisco)
>>> Cc: oprofile-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: Re: Call graph support for powerpc
>>>
>>> Venkat Subbiah -X (vsubbiah - Piepeople Consulting, Inc. at  
>>> Cisco) wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Oprofile doesn't support call graph's for powerpc. Has
>>> anybody tried to
>>>
>>>> extend oprofile to support call graph for Power PC?
>>>>
>>> In fact, call graph support for PowerPC was added in the 2.6.17  
>>> kernel.  As for distros where it's included, SLES 10 is the only  
>>> one I know of at this point.
>>>
>>> The FAQ on the OProfile web site states that call graph is  
>>> supported only on x86 and ARM.  The man page for opcontrol just  
>>> says "x86".  I could submit a patch to add "PowerPC", but I'm  
>>> wondering if there are other arch's out there where callgraph  
>>> support has been added recently.  Might was well update the FAQ  
>>> and man page to be as accurate and up-to-date as possible.
>>>
>>> -Maynard
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thx,
>>>> Venkat
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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