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>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/arch/s390/oprofile/op_counter.h b/arch/s390/oprofile/op_counter.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 61b2531eef17..000000000000
--- a/arch/s390/oprofile/op_counter.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-/*
- *   Copyright IBM Corp. 2011
- *   Author(s): Andreas Krebbel (krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com)
- *
- * @remark Copyright 2011 OProfile authors
- */
-
-#ifndef OP_COUNTER_H
-#define OP_COUNTER_H
-
-struct op_counter_config {
-	/* `enabled' maps to the hwsampler_file variable.  */
-	/* `count' maps to the oprofile_hw_interval variable.  */
-	/* `event' and `unit_mask' are unused. */
-	unsigned long kernel;
-	unsigned long user;
-};
-
-extern struct op_counter_config counter_config;
-
-#endif /* OP_COUNTER_H */