linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch
Heiko Carstens 93dd49d002 s390/oprofile: remove hardware sampler support
Remove hardware sampler support from oprofile module.

The oprofile user space utilty has been switched to use the kernel
perf interface, for which we also provide hardware sampling support.

In addition the hardware sampling support is also slightly broken: it
supports only 16 bits for the pid and therefore would generate wrong
results on machines which have a pid >64k.

Also the pt_regs structure which was passed to oprofile common code
cannot necessarily be used to generate sane backtraces, since the
task(s) in question may run while the samples are fed to oprofile.
So the result would be more or less random.

However given that the only user space tools switched to the perf
interface already four years ago the hardware sampler code seems to be
unused code, and therefore it should be reasonable to remove it.

The timer based oprofile support continues to work.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2016-06-28 09:32:22 +02:00
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alpha lib/GCD.c: use binary GCD algorithm instead of Euclidean 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
arc Revert "ARCv2: spinlock/rwlock/atomics: Delayed retry of failed SCOND with exponential backoff" 2016-06-02 10:59:23 +05:30
arm This finally removes the CLK_IS_ROOT flag by picking up the last few 2016-06-07 16:24:44 -07:00
arm64 arm64: mm: always take dirty state from new pte in ptep_set_access_flags 2016-06-08 10:23:44 +01:00
avr32 printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
blackfin printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
c6x asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
cris MTD updates for v4.7: 2016-05-24 11:00:20 -07:00
frv exit_thread: remove empty bodies 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
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parisc parisc: Move die_if_kernel() prototype into traps.h header 2016-06-05 08:49:01 +02:00
powerpc powerpc fixes for 4.7 #2 2016-06-10 12:23:49 -07:00
s390 s390/oprofile: remove hardware sampler support 2016-06-28 09:32:22 +02:00
score asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
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