On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:09:30AM -0500, William Cohen wrote:
> Stephane Eranian wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >
> >I have decided to make a pre-release of my 2.6.20 perfmon2 kernel patch.
> >It has been a very busy week chasing bugs on x86 and ia-64. I fixed a
> >serious deadlock condition in pfm_restart() today.
> >
> >Before making a broader announce, and because I know many of you have been
> >awaiting this release, I have decided to release what I have so far.
> >I encourage you to test it and stress it. There may still be an issue that
> >I
> >need to chase down, that is why a make a limited release.
> >
> >There are no new feature in this release, simply some code restructuring
> >especially with the arch-specific layer. Several important bugs have been
> >fixed related to set switching and in-flight interrupts.
> >
> >Please try it out, and report any suspicious results.
> >
> >Hopefully by next week, we'll have something that I can release to the
> >wider audience.
> >
> >You can grab the pre-release at:
> > ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/perfmon-new-base-070209.tar.gz
> > MD5SUM: a4aec4a65de1cdb137d26313713e52c4
> >Thanks.
> >
>
> Hi Stephane,
>
> I tried the new set of patches on x86_64 and i686 machines on some machines
> at home. I was able to compile the kernels and do some simple exercising of
> the perfmon support. With light testing things seemed to work.
>
Good.
I forgot to mention that this version includes the support for OProfile on
i386 and x86-64. You need a modified user level oprofile package. A first
cut of this package is available at:
ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/oprof-perfmon2-070122.diff
--
-Stephane
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