I am a user of oprofile. When I use oprofile, I find some problems. Could you please help me?

 

I have some questions about the open source code of the implementation of oprofile in linux

kernel 2.6.26, which is presented op_model_fsl_emb.c, and the path in linux kernel source

tree is arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_fsl_emb.c.

 

To present this question more clearly, It needs the following steps:

1> I give some cpu event and its counter values, which finally will call the function fsl_emb_reg_setup

2> I execute setup, which finally will call the function fsl_emb_cpu_setup

3> I execute start, which finally will call the function fsl_emb_start

4> After calling start, the MPC8560 CPU will continuing increasing the PMCn value until its value reach
0x80000000. Basing on what metioned in E500CORERM.pdf, this value should cause a exception, and
should goto the interrupt routine:fsl_emb_handle_interrupt.
But in fact, It never goto this interrupt routine! It always cause a reboot without any information!

But while we using MPC7450 CPU, this situation never happened, it works well.


Basing on the information metioned above, my questions are:
1> Is there any bug in op_model_fsl_emb.c and its related source code?
2> If possible, could you please tell me what the reason it is? And How to use op_model_fsl_emb.c correctly?


Any feedback is appreciated!

Thanks & regards
Jike