Hi Mikael,
I just download perfctr 2.5.5 and see the difference
between 2.5.4 and 2.5.5 but I could not find code
changes except the changelog and todo.
$ diff -u perfctr-2.5.4 perfctr-2.5.5
diff -u perfctr-2.5.4/CHANGES perfctr-2.5.5/CHANGES
--- perfctr-2.5.4/CHANGES 2003-06-01 21:32:45.000000000 +0900
+++ perfctr-2.5.5/CHANGES 2003-06-16 07:11:23.000000000 +0900
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Id: CHANGES,v 1.106 2003/06/01 12:32:45 mikpe Exp $
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.107 2003/06/15 22:11:23 mikpe Exp $
CHANGES
=======
@@ -6,6 +6,15 @@
[High-level changes in reverse chronological order. Detailed
driver changes are in linux/drivers/perfctr/RELEASE-NOTES.]
+Version 2.5.5, 2003-06-15
+- Updates for driver model changes in kernel 2.5.71.
+- Minor updates to the library's event descriptions for Pentium 4.
+- Now supports SuSE's 2.4.19.SuSE-206 kernel for SLES 8 users.
+ Autodetection of SuSE kernel versions is not yet implemented:
+ pass "--patch=2.4.19.SuSE-206" to perfctr's update-kernel script
+ to ensure that the correct patch is applied.
+- Patch kit updates for 2.4.21 final and 2.4.20-18 RH kernels.
+
Version 2.5.4, 2003-06-01
- Corrected the driver's handling of OVF_PMI+FORCE_OVF counters
on Pentium 4. This configuration didn't work at all, and
diff -u perfctr-2.5.4/TODO perfctr-2.5.5/TODO
--- perfctr-2.5.4/TODO 2003-06-01 21:27:53.000000000 +0900
+++ perfctr-2.5.5/TODO 2003-06-16 07:09:57.000000000 +0900
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
Changes during perfctr-2.5:
+- SuSE kernels don't use EXTRAVERSION. Fix update-kernel to use
+ rpm to identify the exact version instead.
- New AoS counter state layout:
struct perfctr_cpu_user_state {
unsigned int cstatus;
Common subdirectories: perfctr-2.5.4/etc and perfctr-2.5.5/etc
Common subdirectories: perfctr-2.5.4/examples and perfctr-2.5.5/examples
Common subdirectories: perfctr-2.5.4/linux and perfctr-2.5.5/linux
Common subdirectories: perfctr-2.5.4/patches and perfctr-2.5.5/patches
Common subdirectories: perfctr-2.5.4/usr.lib and perfctr-2.5.5/usr.lib
What's wrong? Any hints?
Regards,
Hiro
From: mikpe@csd.uu.se
Subject: [Perfctr-devel] perfctr-2.5.5 released
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 00:29:36 +0200 (MEST)
Message-ID: <200306152229.h5FMTa93026063@harpo.it.uu.se>
> Version 2.5.5 of perfctr, the Linux/x86 performance
> monitoring counters driver, is now available at the usual
> place: http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/perfctr/
>
> x86-64 users please note that the 2.5.71 kernel won't
> compile on x86-64 due to incomplete 'driver model' changes.
> A patch to fix this and two other x86-64 bugs is in the
> patch-x86_64-2.5.71 file in perfctr's download directory.
>
> Version 2.5.5, 2003-06-15
> - Updates for driver model changes in kernel 2.5.71.
> - Minor updates to the library's event descriptions for Pentium 4.
> - Now supports SuSE's 2.4.19.SuSE-206 kernel for SLES 8 users.
> Autodetection of SuSE kernel versions is not yet implemented:
> pass "--patch=2.4.19.SuSE-206" to perfctr's update-kernel script
> to ensure that the correct patch is applied.
> - Patch kit updates for 2.4.21 final and 2.4.20-18 RH kernels.
>
> / Mikael Pettersson
>
>
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