Bug 582913

Summary: [Intel 4.9] Support arch_perfmon for oprofile (kernel support) [rhel-4.8.z]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: kernelAssignee: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 4.9CC: armbru, dhoward, dongwu, emcnabb, herbert.van.den.bergh, jane.lv, jvillalo, kzhang, luyu, peterm, plyons, pm-eus, ron.mckeever, rpacheco, tao, vartika, vmayatsk, wcohen
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: FutureFeature, OtherQA, ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Enhancement
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Support for the Intel architectural performance monitoring subsystem (arch_perfmon). On supported CPUs, arch_perfmon offers means to mark performance events and options for configuring and counting these events.
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Last Closed: 2010-05-05 13:05:48 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 553745    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2010-04-16 07:16:59 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #553745 and has been proposed
to be backported to 4.8 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 2 Don Howard 2010-04-16 18:26:13 UTC
*** Bug 582902 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Don Howard 2010-04-16 18:26:17 UTC
*** Bug 582906 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Vitaly Mayatskikh 2010-04-20 08:32:26 UTC
Committed in 89.0.25.

Comment 7 John Villalovos 2010-04-27 17:05:43 UTC
Hopefully the oprofile userspace gets updated as a z-stream also, otherwise it won't be as useful.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2010-05-05 13:05:48 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0394.html

Comment 11 Douglas Silas 2011-01-30 22:20:03 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
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    New Contents:
Support for the Intel architectural performance monitoring subsystem (arch_perfmon). On supported CPUs, arch_perfmon offers means to mark performance events and options for configuring and counting these events.