From: Maynard J. <may...@us...> - 2011-06-20 14:13:54
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On 06/18/2011 8:04 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > Maynard Johnson<may...@us...> writes: > >> Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote: >>> URL: >>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/oprofile/files/oprofile/oprofile-0.9.7-rc1/oprofile-0.9.7-rc1.tar.gz/download >> >> Suravee, >> Thanks again for rolling out this release. So far, the RC looks good. I've successfully tested it on POWER7/SLES 11 SP1, POWER5/SLES10 SP3, and Intel Xeon/SLES 10 SP2. I would appreciate some testing from other community members on other platforms. > > I did some testing on Fedora 14/Nehalem and OpenSUSE 11.2/Westmere. Thanks for testing. > > The only two problems I noticed (but they're like old bugs): > > * -c10 doesn't work, only -c 10 Please open a bug report for this, but we'll defer fixing until after 0.9.7 GAs. > * A typo like this gives a completely bogus message: > opreport =l > WARNING! The OProfile kernel driver reports sample buffer overflows. > Such overflows can result in incorrect sample attribution, invalid > * sample > files and other symptoms. See the oprofiled.log for details. > You should adjust your sampling frequency to eliminate (or at least > * minimize) > these overflows. > error: no sample files found: profile specification too strict ? We have an FAQ on the oprofile website pointing to a section in the user manual that lists various reasons for this error message. I'll add something to that section to explain why garbage input may be interpreted as an image specification. Thanks. -Maynard > > > -Andi > |