Bug 739142

1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id: [74749]
a. Name of Feature: Update oprofile to latest release -- 0.9.7 or later
b. Feature Description

Update oprofile to latest release to pick up bug fixes and enhancements.  Below is a partial list of bug fixes/enhancements made to 0.9.7:

  - Improve the security of opcontrol
  - Use qt3support to allow either QT3 or QT4
  - opcontrol appears to not support changing events
  - Fix time discrepancy using oprofile
  - ophelp -X doesn't display event's unit mask type
  - opcontrol breaks on busybox ash in is_tool_available()
  - configure fails to handle --without-java correctly
  - Added config option to disable oprofile user check
  - Fix qt lib check so it works on base 64-bit system
  - Fix memory leak opening opd_pipe
  - catch basic_string::erase when parsing an invalid sample file name
  - Fix an opreport error seen on Fedora 12 by making translate_debuginfo_syms
more robust
  - Fix opimport compile error on recent gcc
  - Fix schema validation issues and error in xml generation
  - Fix symbol size problem that causes "start>  end" erorr
  - Avoid blindly writing to $SESSION_DIR/opd_pipe
  - Ensure that --save only saves things in $SESSION_DIR
  - Fix compilation error dueto the assembly language instruction cpuid

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor: LTC Toolchain
Architectures:  ppc64, 

Arch Specificity: both
Affects Kernel Modules: No
Delivery Mechanism: Direct from Community
Category: other
Request Type: Toolchain - Enhancement from Upstream
d. Upstream Acceptance: In Progress
Sponsor Priority P2
f. Severity: high
IBM Confidential: No
Code Contribution: ---
g. Component Version Target: ---

3. Business Case
The OProfile project is releasing 0.9.7.  The previous release was GA'ed in Nov 2009, so a lot of bug fixes and enhancements are available that will benefit users.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat:
John Jarvis, jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Michael L. Hohnbaum, hbaum.com

Technical contact(s):
Maynard P. Johnson, mpjohn.com