testers wanted for PAPI / FreeBSD

[Harald Servat]

Hello,

What is the result of dmesg | grep hwpmc?

Regards,

2007/6/4, Nikolay Pavlov <quetzal at zone3000.net>:
>
> On Sunday, 20 May 2007 at 12:29:23 +0200, Harald Servat wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >  I'm porting PAPI to FreeBSD.  I was wondering if you could give a try
> to
> > the package I'm porting. It would be great to have more feedback than
> just
> > that my laptop is able to provide me :)
> >
> >  First of all, you can download the code at
> >
> >  http://code.google.com/p/papi-for-freebsd
> >
> >  Next, see man hwpmc(4) and compile a kernel with
> >  options HWPMC_HOOKS
> >  device hwpmc
> >
> >  (you'll require device apic if you're running on i386 machines).
> >
> >  When you boot your dmesg should print something like
> >  hwpmc: TSC/1/0x20<REA> P6/2/0x1fe<USR,SYS,EDG,THR,REA,WRI,INV,QUA>
> >
> >  Once the machine is up and running, just untar the file you've
> downloaded,
> > run ./configure and just run make (not make install).
> >
> >  Could you send me the output of the following commands?
> >
> >  # dmesg | grep hwpmc
> >  # utils/papi_avail
> >  # utils/papi_decode
> >  # utils/papi_native_avail
> >  # ctests/low-level
> >  # ctests/high-level
> >
> > Thank you very much,
>
> Hi Harald. I have an error while running configure script:
>
> root at orion:~/papi/papi-3.5.0/src#
> ./configure                                                                                                        <796>
> as_func_failure succeeded.
> as_func_failure succeeded.
> No shell found that supports shell functions.
> Please tell autoconf at gnu.org about your system,
> including any error possibly output before this
> message
> checking for architecture... i386
> checking for OS... freebsd
> checking for OS version... 7.0-CURRENT
> checking for CPU type...
> checking for 32 or 64 bit mode... 32
> checking for debugging build... no
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for mawk... no
> checking for nawk... nawk
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking for g77... no
> checking for xlf... no
> checking for f77... f77
> checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes
> checking whether f77 accepts -g... yes
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
> checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... (cached) yes
> checking whether f77 accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
> checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking for ffsll... no
> checking for working MMTIMER... no
> checking for working CLOCK_REALTIME_HR POSIX 1b timer... no
> checking for working CLOCK_REALTIME POSIX 1b timer... no
> checking for real time clock or cycle counter... cycle
> checking for working __thread... yes
> checking for high performance thread local storage... __thread
> checking for working CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID POSIX 1b timer... no
> checking for working per-thread times() timer... no
> checking for thread virtual clock or cycle counter... default
> checking for /sys/class/perfctr... no
> checking for /dev/perfctr... no
> checking for /sys/kernel/perfmon/version... no
> checking for /proc/perfmon... no
> checking for perfctr version... none
> checking for perfmon version... none
> checking for Makefile to use... configure: error: Error! HWPMC module
> seems not to be on the kernel. Have you compiled the kernel with HWPMC? (see
> hwpmc(4))
>
> However module is there:
>
> quetzal at viking:~/bugs> cat papi.bug
> <1959>
> root at orion:~/papi# kldstat -v | grep
> hwpmc
> <848>
>                 135 hwpmc
>
> root at orion:~/bugs# uname
> -a                                                                                                                          <853>
> FreeBSD orion.zone3000.net 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Jun
> 4 19:33:59 EEST 2007
> root at orion.zone3000.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC-PMC  i386
>
> And i have all required options in kernel config:
>
> quetzal at orion:~/bugs> grep -i PMC
> /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC-PMC
> <890>
> device    hwpmc     # Driver (also a loadable module)
> options   HWPMC_HOOKS   # Other necessary kernel hooks
>
>
> --
> ======================================================================
> - Best regards, Nikolay Pavlov. <<<-----------------------------------
> ======================================================================
>
>


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