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

Will Schmidt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.oprofile
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
> 



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