Re: Revisiting the Xenoprof problem

[William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>]

Venkataraman, Meenakshi wrote:
>> What versions of Xen and oprofile are you running?
> I'm running xen 3.1.0 and oprofile 0.9.3 (patched for xen).
> 
>> Any oprofile related message in the kernel log or in the output of "xm
>> dmesg"
> No...none. Although the cpu type is correctly recognized as a xeon in xm
> dmesg.
> 
>> What is on /dev/oprofile/cpu_type after you run opcontrol?
> "i386/piii"
> 
>> Also take a look at /var/lib/oprofile/samples/oprofiled.log for any
> error message
> There are a lot of CPU_SWITCH messages in during some runs in the
> oprofiled.log. I saw another post with the same problem on an embedded
> processor, but couldn't find any follow up to it.
> 
> Meenakshi

Is xen 3.1.0 okay to run with oprofile 0.9.3. There were some conflicts in the 
defines between xenoprof and the defines added for the cell processor in 
oprofile 0.9.3.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250852

-Will