openSUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for pcm ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2021:0475-1 Rating: moderate References: Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has 0 recommended fixes can now be installed. Description: This update for pcm fixes the following issues: pcm was updated to 202101: * Add Comet Lake support * Add Tiger Lake support * Add support for additional Icelake cpu model * Support Linux resctrl driver for RDT Metrics (see ENVVAR_README.md) * Improve robustness in handling rare core event overflows * A few fixes for c_example * Support using Linux perf API for core PMU for systems with offlined cores * Add -i parameter to more tools * support select metrics in virtual machines with vPMU support (e.g. AWS virtualized instances with arch_perfmon flag). * pcm-memory: make -pmm/-pmem the default option on systems with PMM/PMem support * pcm-tsx: update events for ICL and SKL, allow collection of up to 8 events * pcm-raw: support fixed PMU counters * fix UBOX MSR addresses for Jaketown/Ivytown * support Icelake client CPUs * new pcm-raw utility: to program arbitrary core and uncore events by specifying raw register event ID encoding * pcm-memory: support -all option to show channels event if they do not have any traffic (inactive memory channels) * pcm-memory: csv output for Near Memory hit rate (in PMem Memory Mode) * pcm-memory: show memory channels with PMM but w/o DRAM DIMMs * unfreeze counters using global uncore counter control register during uncore PMU initialization (some other tools freeze using global control before exit) Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-475=1 Package List: - openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1 (x86_64): pcm-202101-bp151.5.1 References: