From: "stephane eranian" <eranian@googlemail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: ia64 <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: 2.6.26 new perfmon kernel patch + libpfm + pfmon available
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:31:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c86c4470807301531i232ebd44m869affe95f036484@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c86c4470807301530s224f5104wdd5004419464bc2e@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,
I have released the perfmon2 kernel patch for kernel v2.6.26. There is
no new major features. Concerning the merge with mainline, we use a different
code base which contains only code to supports only per-thread counting on
X86 processors. The patch is distributed as a quilt patchset and is
posted on LKML.
Here are some of the kernel changes:
- Support for Intel architectural perfmon v3 (as per IA-32 Vol3b June 2008)
- base syscall exported in /sys/kernel/perfmon/syscall
- experimental utrace support
- added dep_pmcs[] to PMD definitions to avoid picking up stale config
- important IBM Power updates to solve counter overflow issues (Corey Ashford)
- AMD64 APIC/PCI cleanups for IBS support (Robert Richter)
- new API for handler routine of sampling formats to accomodate IBM
Cell (Carl Love)
There is also a new release for libpfm, now at version 3.5.
The changes include:
- support for AMD K7 (Vince Weaver)
- support for Intel architectural perfmon v3
- support for SiCortex (ICA9A, ICA9B) (Phil Mucci)
- dynamic perfmon syscall support via /sys
- new environment variable to control debugging and force particular PMU model
Finally, a new major version of pfmon, now at pfmon-3.5 with some minor
changes:
- group unknown symbols as UNKNOWN when sampling (Andrzej Nowak)
- lots of bug fixes
As usual all files and more detailed changelogs can be downloaded from our
website at:
http://perfmon2.sourceforge.net
Enjoy,
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