Re: OProfile-1.2.0-rc1
William Cohen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.oprofile |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 06/19/2017 02:31 PM, Carl Love wrote: > Will: > > I downloaded the RC1 tar ball and tested it on IBM Power 7, IBM Power8 > big endian, IBM Power 8 little endian. I did some manual tests of a > known workload. I also downloaded and ran the OProfile test suite. > Everything looked fine. > > Carl Love Hi Carl, Thanks so much testing on power. I also created some fedora rawhide rpms, https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=20066548 Going to try these out on various machine I have access to. -Will > > On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 11:08 -0400, William Cohen wrote: >> There have been a number of improvements checked into the OProfile git repo. It would be good to have those into an official release. I have made a release candidate and it would be good to test this out on various platforms. >> >> URL: >> https://sourceforge.net/projects/oprofile/files/oprofile/oprofile-1.2.0rc1/oprofile-1.2.0rc1.tar.gz/download >> >> RELEASE NOTES: >> >> New features >> ------------ >> >> - New/updated Processor Support >> * ARM Cortex A17 >> * IBM Power 9 >> * IBM Power 8NV and NVL variants >> * IBM z13 >> * Intel Goldmont >> * Intel Kabylake >> * Intel Xeon Phi (Knights Landing) >> * Achitecture specific events for Applied Micro X-Gene >> >> Bug fixes >> --------- >> >> Filed bug reports: >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> | BUG ID | Summary >> |-----------|------------------------------------------------------------ >> | 286 | Compilation error: left shift of negative value >> | 288 | oprofile fails to build with --enable-pch and gcc-6.2 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Other bug fixes and improvements without a filed report (e.g., posted to the lis >> t): >> --------------- >> - Fixed compile warning and errors when using GCC 6 or GCC 7 >> - Avoid using deprecated readdir_r function >> - Store samples in the archive and search the appropriate places >> for samples >> - Only start the application if the perf events setup was successful >> >> >> Known problems and limitations >> ------------------------- >> >> - When using operf to profile multiple events, the absolute number of >> events recorded may be substantially fewer than expected. This can >> be due to known bug in the Linux kernel's Performance Events >> Subsystem that was fixed sometime between Linux kernel version 3.1 >> and 3.5. >> >> - Monitoring processes that frequently create and destroy threads via >> the "--pid" option can be problematic. The pipes used within operf >> and ocount may fill up can cause these programs to hang and require >> multiple cntl-C to exit rather than successfully collecting data on >> fast spawning processes and children. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> oprofile-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oprofile-list >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot