RE: [Xen-devel] [XENOPROLIFE] New oprofile patch for XenOProfile

["Santos, Jose Renato G" <joserenato.santos@xxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Woller, Thomas [mailto:thomas.woller@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:12 AM
> To: Santos, Jose Renato G; Ray Bryant; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [XENOPROLIFE] New oprofile patch for 
> XenOProfile
> 
> > I have an AMD machine in my Lab which I believe has SVM support.
> > I can use that if needed, but I will need sometime to get 
> it ready and 
> > running Xen.
> > I thought Tom has tested oprofile with both AMD and Intel 
> HVM guests 
> > and that things were working fine.
> thanks renato, I believe that the hypervisor portion of 
> xenoprofile is sending the correct mode, eip/rip values.  
> I'll get with Ray and see if we can track down where the 
> issue might be (oprofile or hv, or configuration issue). 
> 

Ok. That seems a good plan.
I will be glad to help if I can when you have more details.
On a related note, I received a report that XenOprofile is missing some
user level samples. I am preparing a patch with the fix and should post
it to the list later today. This should affect kernel samples though.

> > Could you please sync up with Tom and make sure it is not a problem 
> > with your configuration.
> > Tom can you confirm you were able to successfully run 
> XenOprofile for 
> > HVM guests?
> > If needed I can try to reproduce your problem here when I 
> have my AMD 
> > machine up.
> We'll definitely let you know if we need some assistance in 
> the oprofile area.  
> Any idea when will 0.9.3 be out?  I know that some of the 
> distros are trying to add your xenoprofile patch on top of 
> 0.9.2 for their releases, and having 0.9.3 would be easier 
> that already contained the xen patches.

No I don't know when 0.9.3 wil be out. I still need to sync up with
William Cohen to get the passive domain patches into the oprofile CVS
tree. I was waiting to finish some cleanups in the patch before sending
it to him, but I did not have had time to work on this yet.  

Regards  

Renato

>  
>   --Tom
> 
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Renato
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ray Bryant [mailto:raybry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 9:25 AM
> > > To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: Santos, Jose Renato G; Woller, Thomas
> > > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [XENOPROLIFE] New oprofile patch for 
> > > XenOProfile
> > > 
> > > Renato,
> > > 
> > > Well, I'd postponed any work with xenoprof until we had a working
> > > 3.0.3 version plus the local patches that we are using
> > (includes the
> > > xenoprof patches that Tom Woller et al have done).
> > > 
> > > So, I'm now working with an oprofile 0.9.2 plus your patch 
> > > oprofile-0.9.2-xen.patch from the HP open source website.   
> > > The particular
> > > project we are working on requires us to obtain profiles
> > for the HVM
> > > guest
> > > kernel.   Unfortunately, my first few tries at this have been 
> > > unsuccessful (I
> > > get lots of "lost kernel sample" messages in the
> > oprofiled.log and no
> > > reported samples for the guest kernel.  :-(  ).
> > > 
> > > So I guess my guestion to you is, do you have access to a
> > VT or AMD V
> > > enabled
> > > platform that you can test stuff on?   (I'd like to find a 
> > > collegue to work 
> > > with on this problem if at all possible.)   I have dedicated 
> > > VT and AMD
> > > platforms for my use, so if you have a VT platorm, we can
> > get stuff to
> > > work correctly there first and then I can work with Tom et
> > al to get
> > > the AMD V versions to work.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Ray Bryant
> > > AMD Performance Labs                   Austin, Tx
> > > 512-602-0038 (o)                 512-507-7807 (c)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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