Description of problem: RHEL 7 currently has libpfm-4.4 with backported patches to support some additional processors. libpfm-4.7 was released in February and adds support for a number of newer processor implementations (http://perfmon2.sourceforge.net/) Expected results: Include support for a number of additional processors with the libpfm rebase such as Intel Broadwell-DE and Intel Skylake.
Rebased to libpfm-4.7.0
Well, for now I think the coverage is reasonable, thus we may move this bug further I guess. Tests ran on the following environments: x86_64: BDX, NHM, NHM-EP, NHM-EX, WST, WST-EP, WST-EX, AMD16, AMD21, KNL, BDW-EP, KBL-UY, SNB, IVB, IVB-EP, SNB-EP, HSW60, HSW69, BDW-U, Avoton ppc64: POWER7, POWER8_LPAR, POWER8_KVM, POWER7+ ppc64le: POWER8_LPAR, POWER8_KVM aarch64: Cortex A57, Mustang X-Gene Current version of libpfm does not seem to cause any troubles in the dependent software. VERIFIED
The features described in docs: * Intel Skylake core PMU :: OK * Intel Haswell-EP uncore PMUs :: OK * Intel Broadwell-DE :: OK * Intel Broadwell (desktop core) :: OK * Intel Haswell-EP (core) :: OK * Intel ivyBridge-EP uncore PMUs :: OK * Intel Silvermont core PMU :: OK * Intel RAPL events support :: OK * Intel SNB, IVB, HSW event table updates :: untested * Major update on Intel event tables :: untested * AMD Fam15h Northbridge PMU :: OK
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2016-2395.html