From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264432AbTEPNdM (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 09:33:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264437AbTEPNdM (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 09:33:12 -0400 Received: from meryl.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.42]:63920 "EHLO meryl.it.uu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264432AbTEPNdL (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 09:33:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 15:45:37 +0200 (MEST) Message-Id: <200305161345.h4GDjbc5000236@harpo.it.uu.se> From: mikpe@csd.uu.se To: perfctr-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: perfctr-2.5.3 released Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Version 2.5.3 of perfctr, the Linux/x86 performance monitoring counters driver, is now available at the usual place: http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/perfctr/ x86_64 is now supported in kernels 2.5.69, 2.4.21-rc2, and RawHide's 2.4.20-9.2 (GinGin64 RH 8.0.95 preview). Successfully tested on a dual Opteron box. The x86_64 control data is different than the x86 control data (P5 and P4 control has been removed), so applications must be recompiled for x86_64. Version 2.5.3, 2003-05-16 - Added support for the Pentium M processor. It is mostly like a Pentium III with some more events, except that six old Pentium III / Pentium Pro events have been redefined. - Added support for K8 in 64-bit mode (the x86_64 kernel arch). Updated driver, user-space library, and example programs. The shared library libperfctr.so is now compiled with -fPIC. - K8 bug fix in examples/signal/signal.c: a missing INT flag caused the driver to reject the control setup. - P4 event descriptions updated from recent documentation changes. / Mikael Pettersson