Vince, On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Vince Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I'm having some weird problems with perfmon2 on a 2.6.27.2 kernel patched > with the newest perfmon patch. > > This is on an Intel Core machine. > Well you are running on an Intel Core Duo system (Yonah). It it not the same as Intel Core 2 (Merom).
This is one of the system I don't have access to, so it does not receive a lot of testing. That could explain what you are seeing. Could you enable perfmon debugging and send me the output of dmesg? To enable debugging: pfmon/tests/pfdbg --on --printk Thanks. > For some reason, any counter I read seems to have at least 2^32 added to > it, sometimes multiple times that. > > For example: > chocovic:~% pfmon /bin/true > 4295152148 UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES > chocovic:~% pfmon /bin/true > 4295148838 UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES > chocovic:~% pfmon /bin/true > 4295151887 UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES > > chocovic:~% pfmon -e instructions_retired /bin/true > 4295090034 INSTRUCTIONS_RETIRED > > chocovic:~% pfmon --version > pfmon version 3.6 Date: Oct 21 2008 > Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Hewlett-Packard Company > > Possibly relevant boot messages: > > perfmon: version 2.82 > perfmon: CPU hotplug support enabled > perfmon: Intel Core PMU detection failed > perfmon: detected architecural perfmon v1 > perfmon: num_gen=2 width=40 num_fixed=0 width=0 > perfmon: Intel architectural PMU installed > perfmon: processor does not have PEBS support > perfmon: added sampling format default > > CPU info: > > cpu family : 6 > model : 14 > model name : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz > stepping : 8 > > > Thanks for any help on this issue... > > Vince > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > perfmon2-devel mailing list > perfmon2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perfmon2-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ perfmon2-devel mailing list perfmon2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perfmon2-devel
