Re: [PATCH] 1/2 Oprofile support for Power9

Will Schmidt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.oprofile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 13:17 -0400, William Cohen wrote:
> On 06/06/2017 11:52 AM, Will Schmidt wrote:
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > Add initial support for PPC64/Power9 to oprofile.
> > This includes the documentation updates to indicate "power9",
> > the PVR values, and all the other updates that will be necessary.
> > (This is based on a review of changes made when Power8 support
> > was initially added).
> > The long-ish event list follows as a subsequent patch.
> >     
> > Signed-off-by:  Will Schmidt <[email protected]>
> > 
> > --
> > 
> 
> Hi Will,
> 
> I have started to review the power9 patches.  IIRC OProfile uses libpfm
>  for some of the event mapping for power processors.  Is that the case
>  for power9 also?  Are there similar power9 patches coming for libpfm?

Yes.  They've been sent (yesterday), and I believe are now in the
moderator queue awaiting approval, due to their size. 

> 
> -Will
> 



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