s390/oprofile: remove hardware sampler support
authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 08:40:06 +0000 (10:40 +0200)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 07:32:22 +0000 (09:32 +0200)
commit93dd49d0028c66be9f0404d23dd6817b876cc6dc
treeac0127e05c5212356999f15d788696791e755de7
parent11a7752e015cabb5dbd4a9096f4ab2ca18836ae3
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>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/s390/oprofile/Makefile
arch/s390/oprofile/hwsampler.c [deleted file]
arch/s390/oprofile/hwsampler.h [deleted file]
arch/s390/oprofile/init.c
arch/s390/oprofile/op_counter.h [deleted file]