Re: OProfile-1.2.0-rc1

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
> 

I grabbed and did a build/run across a small assortment of power
systems.   (power7,power8LE,power8BE), test suite runs clean. 
(Also looks good on pre-ga P9)
			=== oprofile Summary ===
	
	# of expected passes		78

One error in 'make check'.  (also see this on my x86 laptop).
I suspect not a big deal, but in case... :-)

	FAIL: load_events_files_tests

	um zero is not used

A quick peek via gdb suggests this is occurring when trying to parse the
events files for CPU_CORE_I7, down the op_events(cpu_type) path.  If I
force that test to pass via setting err=0 in gdb, it occurs again on
CPU_NEHALEM.

Breakpoint 1, op_events (cpu_type=CPU_CORE_I7) at op_events.c:724
724	{
$60 = CPU_CORE_I7
um zero is not used

Breakpoint 1, op_events (cpu_type=CPU_NEHALEM) at op_events.c:724
724	{
$63 = CPU_NEHALEM
um zero is not used


thanks
-Will (Schmidt)


> 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.
> 
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