[Bug 692553] New: oprofile is too old and lack support for newer cpu
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692553 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692553#c0 Summary: oprofile is too old and lack support for newer cpu Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Factory Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Development AssignedTo: pth@novell.com ReportedBy: vljn@ovi.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.04 Chromium/11.0.696.57 Chrome/11.0.696.57 Safari/534.24 Hi, on my system with a E-350 amd cpu, oprofile does not launch. This cpu is classified as family14h, oprofile in opensuse seems to support up tofamily10h cpu ... Using a newer version of oprofile (from the cvs, as 0.9.6 is still the latest stable one...released in 2009) solve the issue. I took the one provided in CodeAnalyst sources which come from a cvs revision known to work with these cpus. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. opcontrol --init (as root) Actual Results: cpu_type 'unset' is not valid you should upgrade oprofile or force the use of timer mode -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Philipp Thomas
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--- Comment #3 from Tony Jones
I suggested using the sources in CodeAnalyst because I don't know if a cvs version of oprofile can make its way into a stable release (it is not sure that oprofile 0.9.7 will be out for opensuse 12.1). Source from CodeAnalyst should obviously have been tested inside AMD staff.
Of course using the latest cvs revision might be better as it should support newer cpu (like future ivi bridge, maybe bulldozer too), but I doubt it comply with opensuse policy to bring only stable package to the distribution.
It sounds like oprofile 0.9.7 is imminent. This said, once it's released I expect an equivalent long delay before 0.9.8 so this issue will arise again. I'll have to check what the policy is but I'm not expecting it to be as draconian as you imply. We used to take snapshot releases of systemtap, which is nothing more than a point in time in the git repo, so not sure why oprofile would be different but I will check. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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