From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 07:46:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC54B1065673; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:46:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fabien.thomas@netasq.com) Received: from netasq.netasq.com (netasq.netasq.com [213.30.137.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F978FC18; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:46:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fabien.thomas@netasq.com) Received: from [10.20.1.5] (unknown [10.0.0.126]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by netasq.netasq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C6301E973; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:15:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <02AE4AED-5A25-4781-B710-4512DBEBF176@netasq.com> From: Fabien Thomas To: FreeBSD Stable List , FreeBSD Hackers In-Reply-To: <84dead720807122205i33bf6eb0p998d473df9e52304@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Apple-Mail-4-737520214; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:56:44 +0200 References: <84dead720807122205i33bf6eb0p998d473df9e52304@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.926) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:26:42 +0000 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Announcement: PmcTools callchain capture for RELENG_7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:46:38 -0000 --Apple-Mail-4-737520214 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For those like me that need FreeBSD 6.3 support i can provide a =20 patchset upon request (That have only been tested on system wide =20 profiling). Fabien Le 13 juil. 08 =E0 07:05, Joseph Koshy a =E9crit : > Hello List(s), > > I am very pleased to announce a patch, by Fabien Thomas, that brings > PmcTools' callchain capture features to 7-STABLE. Thank you, Fabien! > > The patch is linked to from the PmcTools wiki page: > http://wiki.freebsd.org/PmcTools. > > The current file name is: "patch-callchain-FreeBSD-7-=20 > STABLE-2008-07-12.gz". > As the file name indicates, it should apply against a 7-STABLE tree of > 2008-07-12 > vintage. > > To apply the patch: > % cd /home/src-7x # or whereever your RELENG_7 tree resides > % patch < PATCH-FILE > > Then you should follow the full procedure to update userland > and kernel from source as spelled out in src/UPDATING. > > Please note that HWPMC(4) log files that contain callchain =20 > information are > not binary compatible with prior versions of pmc(3) and pmcstat(8). > > Please do test on your systems and let Fabien and me know > how you fared. > > Koshy > --Apple-Mail-4-737520214--