Re: [perfmon] Re: 2.6.13-rc2 perfmon2 new code base with MIPS5K/20K support + libpfm available

[Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:30:33PM +0100, Philip Mucci wrote:
> Yup...just looked at the code...should be simple to adapt...I'll give it
> a spin on perfmon2...the only thing that seems to be obviously wrong are
> the missing arguments to PFM_CREATE_CONTEXT.
> 
Yes, they are using the old perfmon2 interface available just
on IA-64. This perfmonctl() call is still available for backward
compatibility reason but ONLY on Ia-64. For all other
platforms you need to use the pfm_*() system calls. In fact, I think
that even on IA-64 they should eventaully migrate to this model.