On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 23:31 +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > Regarding the perf tools: > > Commit 5d7bdab75cd56d2bdc0986ae5546be3b09fea70a upstream should give the > -fstack-protector-all test. Thanks; I've applied this and several other upstream build fixes and improvements: perf tools: Display better error messages on missing packages perf tools: Add 'make DEBUG=1' to remove the -O6 cflag perf tools: Test -fstack-protector-all compiler option for inclusion in CFLAGS perf tools: Support static build perf tools: Add V=2 option to help debug config issues perf tools: Suggest static libraries as well perf: Use default compiler mode by default perf tools: Move QUIET_STDERR def to before first use perf tools: Check if /dev/null can be used as the -o gcc argument > Regarding the Alpha architecture the following commits that are in > v2.6.33 of the kernel upstream provide the performance event interface: > > Commit fcd14b3203b538dca04a2b065c774c0b57863eec upstream adds the Alpha > specific part for perf tools. > > Commit a582e6f01b90211933e70edcec9bc0bbb1157402 upstream provides > minimal support for performance events in the kernel for Alpha. However > it probably won't apply cleanly to 2.6.32 without commit > 21797c599c710d3851d241c4b50690f2482bf618 which wires up quite a number > of missing syscalls, which in turn depends on > 6e17e8b9fb74b9fb9f6ea331f7f4a049c5b4c4b8 which wires up the syscall for > recvmmsg that is new in 2.6.33. Thus a modified 21797c599 is required > for 2.6.32 to do all this; I think I might still have the patch > somewhere, but in any case I could regenerate it should you wish to have it. I'll be happy to apply backported patches. However, Alpha is no longer a Debian release architecture and I don't intend to spend any significant time on it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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