Package: oprofile Version: 0.9.3-2.1 Severity: important When run on a Xeon Nehalem platform, oprofile reports:
r...@dione:/var/tmp# opcontrol --vmlinux=/var/tmp/vmlinux --separate=kernel,lib cpu_type 'unset' is not valid you should upgrade oprofile or force the use of timer mode This makes it impossible to use oprofile effectively on a Nehalem system. The same problem is reported against Red Hat in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497230 There, it is reported that oprofile version 0.9.4 includes the necessary support for Nehalem. Can these changes from 0.9.4 be back-ported to Debian too? -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64-vyatta (SMP w/16 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages oprofile depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library ii libpopt0 1.14-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime oprofile recommends no packages. Versions of packages oprofile suggests: pn oprofile-gui <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
