[Cbe-oss-dev] patches for oprofile on PS3?

Marcus G. Daniels mdaniels at lanl.gov
Tue Sep 2 04:02:17 EST 2008


Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> opcontrol: line 1342: echo: write error: Function not implemented".  
> On that line it is attempting to write "1" into /dev/oprofile/enable.  
Clarification:  This is specific to use of the following:
 
   opcontrol --event=SPU_CYCLES:N

Other events like store_miss or Branch_Commit do apparently make 
measurements as does PPU-side profiling, i.e. they don't trigger the 
error message above upon opcontrol --start.

Marcus



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