testers wanted for PAPI / FreeBSD

[Nikolay Pavlov]

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


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