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RE: [Xen-devel] [XENOPROLIFE] New oprofile patch for XenOProfile

To: "Bryant, Ray" <ray.bryant@xxxxxxx>, "Ray Bryant" <raybry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [XENOPROLIFE] New oprofile patch for XenOProfile
From: "Santos, Jose Renato G" <joserenato.santos@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 16:06:32 -0600
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Woller, Thomas" <thomas.woller@xxxxxxx>
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [XENOPROLIFE] New oprofile patch for XenOProfile
 Ray,

 Do you get versions 1 and 2 working with 32bit Xen?
 Could you please send me Rosimildo patches. I don't think I have it and
I would like to compare with the others.
 Thanks

  Renato 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryant, Ray [mailto:ray.bryant@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:01 PM
> To: Santos, Jose Renato G; Ray Bryant
> Cc: Woller, Thomas; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [XENOPROLIFE] New oprofile patch for 
> XenOProfile
> 
> Santos, Jose Renato G wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >>> 
> >>> Ok. That seems a good plan.
> >>> I will be glad to help if I can when you have more details.
> >>> On a related note, I received a report that XenOprofile 
> is missing 
> >>> some user level samples. I am preparing a patch with the fix and 
> >>> should post it to the list later today. This should affect kernel 
> >>> samples though.
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> "should" or "should not" affect kernel samples?
> >> 
> > 
> > Sorry for the typo. It should NOT affect kernel samples REnato
> 
> That's what I figured, but was just checking.  :-)
> 
> I mispoke before, the last time I have this stuff working was with cs
> 11408 and what I labeled "old profile" (whatever that was...)
> 
> So I went back and resurrected my cs 11408 xen build and ran 
> three different versions of xenoprof against it:
> 
> (1)  oprofile 0.9.2 + your patch for 0.9.2
> (2)  oprofile 0.9.1 + your patch r3 for 0.9.1
> (3)  oprofile 0.9.1 + Rosimildo's old patch to fix image->start and
> image->end for 64 bit hypervisor
> 
> (1) and (2) didn't give me any xen or guest kernel samples.   
> (3) worked
> the way I was expecting things to work (as it had before).
> So I am guessing that (3) is the old profile I used before.
> 
> I rebooted to cs 11785 + AMD patches, and retried (3) and it 
> works basically  the same as it did for 11408 (whew).  I 
> still haven't verified that the xen and kernel guest samples 
> are correct, but at least there are xen, kernel guest, kernel 
> user samples and I'm not getting any with (1) or (2).
> 
> So I am thinking that the problems I am seeing are related to 
> 64-bit hypervisor and the more recent fixes than Rosimildo's patchset.
> 
> --
> Best Regards,
> 
> Ray
> 
> Ray Bryant, Ph. D.
> x50038 or  512-602-0038
> AMD Performance Labs
> Austin, Texas
> 
> 
> 

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