On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 4:45 PM, William Cohen <wco...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 08/28/2012 06:29 AM, stephane eranian wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have finally released libpfm version 4.3.0.
>>
>> As expected, it includes many updates, improvements and bug fixes.
>> Many thanks to all the people who have contributed to this release.
>>
>> Highlights:
>>
>> - ARM Cortex A15 support (Thanks to Will Deacon for his contribution)
>> - updated Intel Sandy Bridge core PMU events
>> - Intel Sandy Bridge desktop (model 42) uncore PMU support
>> - Intel Ivy Bridge core PMU support
>> - full perf_events generic event support (e.g., cycles, instructions)
>> - updated perf_examples
>> - enabled Intel Nehalem/Westmere uncore PMU support
>> - AMD LLano processor support (Fam 12h) (Thanks to Vince Weaver)
>> - AMD Turion processor support (Fam 11h) (Thanks to Vince Weaver)
>> - Intel Atom Cedarview processor support
>> - Win32 compilation support
>> - perf_events excl attribute
>> - many bug fixes
>>
>> You can download the tarball from:
>>   
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/perfmon2/files/libpfm4/libpfm-4.3.0.tar.gz/download
>>
>> Hopefully, I will be able to releases 4.4.0 much sooner next time.
>
> Hi Stephane,
>
> Thanks so much for the fresh libpfm-4.3.0 release.  I just built a version 
> for fedora rawhide at:
>
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=350950
>
> I ran ./libpfm-4.3.0/tests/validate on a fedora 17 Intel Ivy bridge and AMD 
> family 10H machine. The tests all listed as pass with the exception of the 
> following for Intel Ivy Bridge:
>
>         checking perf (120 events): pmu: perf event80: sunrpc :: numasks too 
> big (<8)
> Failed
>
> And the following for AMD family 10H:
>
>         checking perf (119 events): pmu: perf event85: sunrpc :: numasks too 
> big (<8)
> Failed
>
>
Ok, will look at those two.

>
> Would it be possible to do the ldconf separately from the "make install"? The 
> rpm packages are built as normal users with a staged install and the ldconf 
> is done as a post install operation. The ldconf in the makefile needed to be 
> disabled for the libpfm rpm to be built.
>
I just updated the libpfm.spec today to convert ldconfig to a nop
(LDCONFIG=true), so
it should not perturb the generation of the RPM. At least, it did not
for me when I tried
on Fedora 16.

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