Re: Removal of events for unsupported architectures or processor models
William Cohen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.oprofile |
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On 07/21/2014 07:08 PM, Maynard Johnson wrote: > Hello, oprofile community, > Your input and feedback on the issue described below would be appreciated. > > As recently announced on the oprofile-list, OProfile release 1.0 will *NOT* include the legacy opcontrol-based profiler. Only the operf profiler -- which uses the Linux Kernel Performance Events Subsystem (aka "perf_events") -- will be included in release 1.0. It seems logical at this time to also remove the events and unit mask files for any architecture or processor types that are not supported by perf_events. From what I can tell, here are the architectures that do not have perf_events support: > > avr32 > ia64 I have no regrets dropping the ia64 support. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was the last Red Hat release that supported ia64. -Will > > Unsupported processor models are: > > ppc64/cell-be > ppc64/pa6t (?) > > If anyone knows of any additional architectures and/or processor models that do not have perf_events support and, thus, should be dropped from oprofile release 1.0, please let me know. > > Thanks. > > -Maynard > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and > search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck > Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code > search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds > _______________________________________________ > oprofile-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oprofile-list > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds