[PATCH] oprofile: falling back on timer interrupt mode
When some hardware setups or architectures do not allow OProfile to use performance counters, OProfile operates in timer mode. But, from 2.6.11-rc1, we need to specify the module parameter "timer=1" to work on timer interrupt mode. Change things so that we detect the absence of the high-resolution timer and fall back to timer-based profiling automatically. Furthermore we can easily get oops by reading /dev/oprofile/cpu_type. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <amgta@yacht.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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