Re: [PATCH] Add support for the IBM POWER 8 NV and NVL variants.

On 12/19/2016 12:31 PM, Carl E. Love wrote:
> Add support for the IBM POWER 8 NV and NVL variants.
> 
> The processor performance counter unit is identical for the various
> variants of the POWER 8 processor.  The variants vary some for the
> non-cpu events.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Carl Love <[email protected]>
> ---
>  libop/op_cpu_type.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/libop/op_cpu_type.c b/libop/op_cpu_type.c
> index d03f9d6..0e1f6e4 100644
> --- a/libop/op_cpu_type.c
> +++ b/libop/op_cpu_type.c
> @@ -330,6 +330,11 @@ static op_cpu _get_ppc64_cpu_type(void)
>  	if (strncmp(cpu_name_lowercase, "power8e", 7) == 0)
>  		cpu_name_lowercase[6] = '\0';
>  
> +	/* The POWER8NV and POWER8NVL variants have the same core PMU events as
> +	 * POWER8. */
> +	if (strncmp(cpu_name_lowercase, "power8nv", 8) == 0)
> +		cpu_name_lowercase[6] = '\0';
> +
>  	cpu_type_str[0] = '\0';
>  	strcat(cpu_type_str, "ppc64/");
>  	strncat(cpu_type_str, cpu_name_lowercase, len);
> 

Hi Carl,

Thanks for the patch. It has been merged into the oprofile master git repository. -Will

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