Re: Announcement: Release Candidate 1 for OProfile 1.0.0

Hi Will,

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 05:02:44PM +0100, William Cohen wrote:
> I built rpms from the current oprofile git repo and included the patch
> (http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=7485311).  I reran the
> tests on the cortex a15, amd family 10, and ivybridge machine and verified
> there weren't any changes in the test results.  For Fedora arm cortex a9
> there was some improvements.  All the cycle-check-ocount tests pass now
> and more of the other tests pass.  However, there are still more failures
> on the f20 cortex a9 than the other machine, most often a "Non-zero count
> for workload ...". I have attached the output of tests for the cortex a9.

[...]

> Running target unix
> Using /usr/share/dejagnu/baseboards/unix.exp as board description file for target.
> Using /usr/share/dejagnu/config/unix.exp as generic interface file for target.
> Using ./config/unix.exp as tool-and-target-specific interface file.
> Running ./oprofile-operf/oprofile-operf-run.exp ...
> FAIL: nonzero-sized sample file creation: {INST_RETIRED} created nonzero sample files
> FAIL: nonzero-sized sample file creation: {INST_RETIRED} created nonzero sample files
> FAIL: nonzero-sized sample file creation: {INST_RETIRED} created nonzero sample files
> FAIL: nonzero-sized sample file creation: {INST_RETIRED} created nonzero sample files

Not sure if it helps, but A9 doesn't implement the INST_RETIRED counter
(0x08) so I wouldn't expect any numbers to come back from that event.

Will

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