Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] unexport profile_pc

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, John Levon wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:16:52PM -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> 
> > > I haven't found any modular usage of profile_pc in the kernel.
> > 
> > Oprofile?
> 
> We don't actually use it, but it looks like maybe we should? It seems
> unfortunate that readprofile and OProfile should disagree here.

We really should be using it otherwise you get profile hits in the 
spin_lock functions, which isn't really helpful. I recall sending patches 
for this, i may have to resend.

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