PAFlib 0.3.0

0.3.0 - 2016-07-29

• Release 0.3.0
• Fix bugs in make-release.sh
• Fix error in libpaf-dsc and libpaf-ebb man pages example
• Refreshed configuration files
• Added new maintainers and contribution guidelines.
• Move tests from noinst_PROGRAMS to check_PROGRAMS
• Change libpaf-common as libtool convenience library
• ebb: Cleanup handlers
• ebb: Unify handler code
• ebb: Improve clobber test
• ebb: Fix bugs in ppc64 handlers
• ebb: Refactor ppc32 handler
• ebb: Cleanup backtrace test
• Minor fixes to ppr manpage
• Minor formatting changes
• Build with -Werror.
• Fixes 'implicit declaration' warnings in the build.
• Add PPR support
• EBB: Function name mismatch

PAFlib 0.2.0

ChangeLog

0.2.0 - 2015-07-16

• Release 0.2.0
• Ignore wrongly formatted tags in the ChangeLog.md
• Enable make distcheck in make-release.sh
• Distribute ebb test scripts in the source code tarball
• Move common code to a static library
• Distribute ebb internal header in the source code tarball
• Ignore more files in git
• Fix the distribution of manpages
• Increase tests in configure
• Fix the size of type timing
• Fix printf format for timing variable
• tb: Add timebase work functions
• ebb: Add fast enable/disable inline functions
• Add a release script and fix packaging bugs
• Dynamically generate ChangeLog file
• Add bootstrap script
• Move tests from noinst_PROGRAMS to check_PROGRAMS
• Enable EBB only if the compiler supports POWER8
• Fix formatting in README.md
• ebb: Do not clobber r31 on ELFv2 in tests
• Ignore temporary files
• Add support for autotools' maintainer mode
• Enable configuring in the same directory
• ebb: Add new testcases
• ebb: Extend API and bugfixes

Creating for fedora package

Adjust SETUP_TOC for older versions

Older binutils doesn't support .TOC. properly, other than .TOC.@tocbase used in
OPD. Hence using different method of loading the toc pointer for older binutils.

	* ebb/ebb-callback-ppc64.S:  Adjust TOC.

Creating new package

Adjust SETUP_TOC for older versions

Older binutils doesn't support .TOC. properly, other than .TOC.@tocbase used in
OPD. Hence using different method of loading the toc pointer for older binutils.

	* ebb/ebb-callback-ppc64.S:  Adjust TOC.

PAFLib version 0.1-2

This is a bugfix release for 0.1. It fixes:

• PowerPC ELFv2 for EBB
  • fix for cases when TOC is not correct materialized
  • fix for EBB which setups the wrong internal handler.
• Fix broken EBB sample period

PAFLib version 0.1-1

This is a bugfix release for 0.1 one and it fixes:

• ebb: Fix paf enable/disable branches by avoid to set/reset the Global Enable (GE) bit.
• ebb: Reset MMCR0 independently of PAF_EBB_FLAGS_RESET_PMU

PAFLib

PAFLib is a IBM written library which exposes Power Architecture Facilities to userspace via an API. This includes the Data Stream Control Register Facility (DSCR) and the Event-Based Branching facility (EBB). Linux kernel 3.9 has exposed problem-state DSCR usage for ISA 2.06 (POWER7 – emulated) and ISA 2.07 (POWER8 – in hardware). Linux 3.10 has exposed the EBB facility.