linux-kernel - Re: [perfmon] 2.6.20 new perfmon code base + libpfm + pfmon

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Message-ID: <45D3415B.7080104@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:05:31 -0500
From:	William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>
To:	William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>
CC:	eranian@....hp.com, perfmon@...ali.hpl.hp.com,
	oprofile-list@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, perfctr-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [perfmon] 2.6.20 new perfmon code base + libpfm + pfmon

William Cohen wrote:
> Hello Stephane,
> 
> The oprofile patch should be made against the oprofile cvs rather than 
> the 0.9.2 tarball. There are some files that the patch touches that are 
> created by the autogen.sh.
> 
> The oprofile patch doesn't build if things are configured without the 
> "--enable-perfmon2".
> 
> gcc -W -Wall -fno-common -Wdeclaration-after-statement 
> -fno-omit-frame-pointer -g -O2   -o oprofiled  init.o oprofiled.o 
> opd_stats.o opd_sfile.o opd_kernel.o opd_trans.o opd_cookie.o 
> opd_events.o opd_mangling.o opd_perfmon.o opd_perfmon_22.o 
> opd_perfmon_compat.o opd_anon.o liblegacy/liblegacy.a ../libabi/libabi.a 
> ../libdb/libodb.a ../libop/libop.a ../libutil/libutil.a -lpopt -liberty 
> -ldl
> opd_perfmon.o: In function `perfmon_init':
> /home/wcohen/research/profiling/oprofile/oprofile-0.9.2-perfmon2/daemon/opd_perfmon.c:384: 
> undefined reference to `do_perfmon_init'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> -Will

Hi Stephane,

I tweaked the oprofile patch a bit so that it applies to the oprofile cvs 
repository and builds with and without being configured with --enable-perfmon2. 
The patch is attached.

Things that will need to be done to the patch:

-handle case where perfmon pmd/pmc registers are unavailable
	Is the method being used going to work for systemwide perfmon?
		create a thread local context then collect unavail regs.
	What happens if another thread using a register that is marked
		available in the current thread?
-handle naming differences between oprofile events and perfmon2
-general cleanup

-Will

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