Re: [PATCH] 1/2 Oprofile support for Power9
Will Schmidt <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.oprofile |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 09:45 -0400, William Cohen wrote: > On 06/07/2017 02:51 PM, Will Schmidt wrote: > > 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 > >> > > > > > > Hi Will, > > The patches looked reasonable, so they have been checked into the main oprofile git repository. Thanks for the patches. > > Do you have some patches to add to the oprofile-testsuite to allow testing oprofile on power9? I had spaced this part, my bad. Thanks for the reminder... :-) Patch to add p9 to the testsuite will be following momentarily. > > -Will > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot