Re: Announcement: Release Candidate 1 for OProfile 1.0.0

[Andi K. <an...@fi...>]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 11:44:32AM -0500, Maynard Johnson wrote:
> On 08/29/2014 08:33 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:56:21AM -0500, Maynard Johnson wrote:
> >> On 08/15/2014 10:54 AM, Maynard Johnson wrote:
> >>> We are pleased to announce OProfile 1.0.0 Release Candidate 1.  You can download this release at:
> >>> 	http://sourceforge.net/projects/oprofile/files/oprofile/oprofile-1.0.0-rc1/
> >>>
> >>> Please download and test this release candidate, and send your feedback by replying to this message.  Please include your hardware platform and Linux distribution information in your reply.
> >>
> >> Fellow oprofile architecture maintainers,
> >> Please test the oprofile 1.0.0 RC1 and let me know your results. FYI . . . Due to the
> >> Java profiling bug reported this week by Brian Hall, I will be incorporating a fix into
> >> the next 1.0.0 tar file I make available.  If more fixes are needed, I will put out an
> >> RC2, otherwise I'll make it GA.  Either way, I'd like to put out the next tar file by
> >> the end of the week. Thanks!
> > 
> > I did some tests on Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Silvermont and didn't notice
> > any special issues.
> > 
> > Minor issues: (may be old ones):
> > - ophelp doesn't seem to always word wrap on more narrow terminals
> > - silvermont is missing a few pebs events
> Thanks for testing, Andi.  If you have a patch to add the missing pebs events for silvermont, I would include it in the GA.

I noticed more PEBS flags are missing for other CPUs. Would you be ok with regenerating
more of the Intel event lists?

This would also give the latest Intel event updates.

-Andi