From: Philippe E. <ph...@us...> - 2004-02-16 18:30:53
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Update of /cvsroot/oprofile/oprofile-www/release-notes In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv382/release-notes Modified Files: oprofile-0.8 Log Message: update release notes; add callgraph-0.2.diff to patch section Index: oprofile-0.8 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/oprofile/oprofile-www/release-notes/oprofile-0.8,v retrieving revision 1.5 retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -p -d -r1.5 -r1.6 --- oprofile-0.8 10 Feb 2004 03:04:26 -0000 1.5 +++ oprofile-0.8 16 Feb 2004 18:22:39 -0000 1.6 @@ -25,12 +25,23 @@ New features unit mask is now a part of event specification meaning than you can visualise profile with distinct event name, count and unit mask. -when specifying invalid value to setup events like opcontrol -e FOO:3000:0xx21 -the unit mask was silently accepted with a zero value. +P4 HyperThreading support has been backported from 2.6 to 2.4 for the incoming +2.4.26, kernel and oprofile patch are provided to allow to use it for kernel +between 2.4.17-2.4.25 -P4: Many unit-mask which was always neccessary are set by default now and can't -be modified. Invalid BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE default unit mask is fixed. -PAGE_WALK_TYPE default unit mask has been changed for 0x03 to 0x01 +Pentium Mobile (P6 core) support has been added from 2.6.3 kernel + +ARM support through timer interrupt has been added from 2.6.3 kernel + +--verbose option has ehanced + +separate debug file info are now handled (FIXME bugged ?) + +When using 2.6 driver you can now setup the per cpu buffer size + +improved statistics in oprofiled.log + +with 2.6 kernel samples was not flushed all 10 minutes Bug fixes --------- @@ -38,3 +49,11 @@ Bug fixes A build problem with the Intel compiler has been fixed (bug #845616). when merging unit mask the event description um part was incorrect. + +when specifying invalid value to setup events like opcontrol -e FOO:3000:0xx21 +the unit mask was silently accepted with a zero value. + +P4: Many unit-mask which was always neccessary are set by default now and can't +be modified. Many other small modification in P4 unit mask, see ChangeLog + +P4 with HyperThreading: all events minimal count has been doubled |