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Description of problem:
PAPI/perfctr does not seem to work on Red Hat.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install kernel patch from PAPI: http://icl.cs.utk.edu/papi/
2. load perfctr module
3. run papi test suite
  

Actual Results:  tests fail.  PAPI tries to make a /proc/self/perfctr file and does not succeed.

Expected Results:  PAPI test suite should pass.

Additional info:

dmesg contains the following, so something somewhere is partly working:
PERFCTR INIT: vendor 0, family 15, model 2, stepping 4, clock 1799842 kHz
PERFCTR INIT: NITER == 64
PERFCTR INIT: loop overhead is 512 cycles
PERFCTR INIT: rdtsc cost is 82.8 cycles (5816 total)
PERFCTR INIT: rdpmc cost is 372.1 cycles (24332 total)
PERFCTR INIT: rdmsr (counter) cost is 251.7 cycles (16624 total)
PERFCTR INIT: rdmsr (escr) cost is 166.8 cycles (11188 total)
PERFCTR INIT: wrmsr (counter) cost is 849.8 cycles (54900 total)
PERFCTR INIT: wrmsr (escr) cost is 921.0 cycles (59456 total)
PERFCTR INIT: read cr4 cost is 5.1 cycles (840 total)
PERFCTR INIT: write cr4 cost is 253.3 cycles (16728 total)
PERFCTR INIT: rdpmc (fast) cost is 61.5 cycles (4448 total)
PERFCTR INIT: rdmsr (cccr) cost is 167.6 cycles (11244 total)
PERFCTR INIT: wrmsr (cccr) cost is 873.8 cycles (56436 total)
PERFCTR INIT: write LVTPC cost is 33.6 cycles (2668 total)
PERFCTR INIT: sync_core cost is 261.6 cycles (17260 total)
perfctr: driver 2.6.13 DEBUG, cpu type Intel P4 at 1799842 kHz