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Bug 687968

Summary:	oprofile --setup not valid with --save
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	James M. Leddy <james.leddy>
Component:	oprofile	Assignee:	William Cohen <wcohen>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-tools-bugs
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	gborsuk
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Description James M. Leddy 2011-03-15 21:08:46 UTC

Description of problem:

We have scripts that start, top and save oprofile sessions with the following commands. These used to work fine under RHEL5 but we're seeing this "Option "--setup" not valid with "--save" " error under RHEL6. Is there a way to work around this?

[root@etc759679a eth0]# opcontrol --start --session-dir=/local/tmp/root.lyIVNu --vmlinux=/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.32-71.18.1.el6.x86_64/vmlinux --separate=lib --event=CPU_CLK_UNHALTED:6000::0:1
Profiler running.
[root@etc759679a eth0]# opcontrol --stop
Stopping profiling.
[root@etc759679a eth0]# opcontrol --session-dir=/local/tmp/root.lyIVNu --dump
Option "--setup" not valid with "--dump".
[root@etc759679a eth0]# opcontrol --session-dir=/local/tmp/root.lyIVNu --save=CPU_CLK_UNHALTED
Option "--setup" not valid with "--save".

Comment 4 William Cohen 2011-03-16 20:04:44 UTC

The suggest patch is reverting a fix for the case where someone wants to use

opcontrol --setup --session-dir=blah

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2646398&group_id=16191&atid=116191


The proposed solution is unlikely the right way to do things.

Comment 5 William Cohen 2011-03-16 21:31:13 UTC

The --session-dir shouldn't need to be used for the --dump and --save options. That information is already be in the /root/.oprofile/daemonrc file and in implicitly used by the "opcontrol --save=..." and "opcontrol --dump".

Just use:

 opcontrol --save=CPU_CLK_UNHALTED

The "--stop" implicitly does a "--dump" so the following "opcontrol --dump" is redundant.