Stephane Eranian wrote:
Will,
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 01:39:01PM -0500, William Cohen wrote:
Hi Stephane,
I have been looking through the perfmon2 code to see how it is going to
work with OProfile. It looks like the ia64 oprofile support has not been
modified to work with the changes in perfmon2. Has the ia64 kernel been
built with perfmon2 and oprofile support? I don't have easy access to an
ia64, so I haven't been able to verify that the attached patch works.
However, I expect that the changes in the patch will be required for
OProfile to function with perfmon2.
Good timing. I just fixed this today. Now it compiles fine on
IA64. I also started looking into using the same technique on
i386. It is very easy. It looks like opcontrol or ophelp
would need to be updated. I think the trick is to make
sure that ophelp knows the PMU mapping used by perfmon2,
i.e., knows that PERFEVTSEL0 is PMC0 for instance.
Yes, I have a similar patch for i386 in the kernel. I don't yet have
modifications for opcontrol or ophelp.
One question would be identifying the processor when using the perfmon2
support for i386/* processors? There is prior support in the oprofile
driver for i386 processors. Identify the processor differently depending
on whether perfmon2 is being used to distinguish between the different
interfaces? The way that OProfile has the events each name processor
requires a different directory in /usr/share/oprofile. Would prefer to
keep down the proliferation of new directories.
-Will
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