Re: [Xen-devel] Xenoprof: getting Oprofile out of timer mode?

["Ray Bryant" <raybry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 21 May 2006 01:53, Santos, Jose Renato G wrote:
> Xenoprof initialization is failing with -ENODEV status (-19).
> There are two conditions that would cause this:
> 1) The local APIC is not available (cpu_has_apic is false)
> 2) OR the cpu (family/model) is not one of the known CPU models
>    in xenoprof
>
> Have you tried running Oprofile in vanila linux?
> Does OProfile recognize the CPU model and the APIC in Linux?
>
> Renato
>

Yeah, it looks the problem is the following check in 
arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c:

        if (cpu_model > 4)
                return 0;

Intel processors 920 and 955 (perhaps others, you would have to ask Intel) 
appear to return 6 as the cpu model.  Making the obvious change to the above 
gets oprofile out of timer only mode.   An obvious patch is attached.

-- 
Ray Bryant
AMD Performance Labs                   Austin, Tx
512-602-0038 (o)                 512-507-7807 (c)

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