Re: OProfile-0.9.7 Release

[Maynard J. <may...@us...>]

Suthikulpanit, Suravee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am pleased to announce the official release of the OProfile-0.9.7.  I would like to thank you everybody who helped out with testing the release candidates and fixed the last minutes bugs.

Suravee,
Thank you very much for all of your efforts to make this happen!

-Maynard

> 
> Enjoy,
> 
> Suravee
> 
> URL:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/oprofile/files/oprofile/oprofile-0.9.7/oprofile-0.9.7.tar.gz/download
> 
> Release Notes:
> 
> OProfile is a powerful system-wide profiler for Linux. Read
> more at http://oprofile.sf.net
> 
> OProfile 0.9.7 has been released. OProfile is still in alpha,
> but has been proven stable for many users.
> 
> 
> New features
> ------------
> 
> - New Processors Supports
>     * MIPS Loongson2
>     * Intel Nehalem
>     * ARM Cortex-A9
>     * MIPS 74K
>     * MIPS 1004K
>     * AMD family12h
>     * AMD family14h
>     * AMD family15h
>     * Intel Westmere
>     * ARMv7 Scorpion
>     * ARMv7 ScorpionMP
>     * Intel Sandy Bridge
> 
> - Allow additional flags in unitmasks.
> 
> - Enable Qt4 gui supports
> 
> Bug fixes
> ---------
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |  BUG ID   |  Summary
> |-----------|------------------------------------------------------------
> |  3303383  |  Improve the security of opcontrol
> |  3090939  |  Patch to move from QT3 to QT4[qt3support]
> |  3072766  |  opreport appears to not support changing events
> |  3069227  |  Time discrepancy using oprofile
> |  3053794  |  ophelp -X doesn't display event's unit mask type
> |  2968895  |  Recurrence of bug 1930788
> |  2935944  |  [FAQ] Add item regarding [vdso] messages
> |  2878705  |  opcontrol breaks on busybox ash in is_tool_available()
> |  2153620  |  configure fails to handle --without-java correctly
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> - 12/07/2009 Added config option to disable oprofile user check
> - 01/26/2010 Fix qt lib check so it works on base 64-bit system
> - 03/17/2010 Fix memory leak according to opening opd_pipe
> - 03/25/2010 catch basic_string::erase when parsing an invalid sample file name
> - 04/14/2010 Fix an opreport error seen on Fedora 12 by making translate_debuginfo_syms more robust
> - 10/13/2010 Fix opimport compile error on recent gcc
> - 10/16/2010 Fix schema validation issues and error in xml generation
> - 05/06/2011 Fix symbol size problem that causes "start > end" erorr
> - 05/23/2011 Avoid blindly writing to $SESSION_DIR/opd_pipe
> - 05/23/2011 Ensure that --save only saves things in $SESSION_DIR
> - 07/04/2011 Fix compilation error dueto the assembly language instruction cpuid
> - 07/20/2011 Fix the logic for checking /dev/oprofile/[0-9]+/extra
> - 07/20/2011 Fix operport error with "-m cpu"
> - 07/29/2011 Fix possible buffer overrun in ibs_init()
> 
> 
> Known problems
> --------------
> 
> - If NMI watchdog is not disabled (x86), opcontrol may fail to
>   allocate the hardware performance counter(s) it needs (bug #1468916).
> 
> 
> - When profiling stripped libraries where OProfile needs to access a debuginfo
>   file, it's possible that src filename/line # information may be incorrect
>   (bug #2573008).
> 
> - Many Alpha ev67 events do not work (bug #931875).
> 
> - For 2.2 kernels, the module must be compiled as the same user
>   that owns the kernel source tree.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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