Thanks for the pointers.

alright, I've backed up to libpfm 3.3 and pfmon 3.2-071017 and now I  
get:

   can't create perfmon context: Bad file descriptor

Should those versions work with system?

Thanks again

-steve

On Apr 28, 2008, at 2:20 AM, stephane eranian wrote:

> Steve,
>
> libpfm-3.4 is for kernel 2.6.24 or newer due to syscall number changes
> + minor perfmon ABI changes.
> Also note that you need to use a patched kernel if you are not on  
> IA-64.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Steven Swanson  
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I get the following error whenever I try to run pfmon:
>>
>> can't create perfmon context: Invalid argument
>>
>> I'm using the current cvs version of libpfm and pfmon, although the
>> error occurs with  libpfm-3.4 and pfmon-3.3
>>
>> I've include some (hopefully) useful system data below.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -steve
>>
>>
>> It's a Centos 5.0 machine.  here's the uname -a
>>
>>                Linux my.host.net 2.6.22.1_ahci_3ware_perfmon #2 SMP  
>> Mon Apr 28
>> 00:03:47 PDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>>
>> and last entry from /proc/cpuinfo
>>
>> =================================
>> processor       : 3
>> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
>> cpu family      : 6
>> model           : 15
>> model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X3220  @ 2.40GHz
>> stepping        : 11
>> cpu MHz         : 2394.034
>> cache size      : 4096 KB
>> physical id     : 0
>> siblings        : 4
>> core id         : 3
>> cpu cores       : 4
>> fpu             : yes
>> fpu_exception   : yes
>> cpuid level     : 10
>> wp              : yes
>> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr  
>> pge
>> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm  
>> syscall
>> nx lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr
>> lahf_lm
>> bogomips        : 4788.37
>> clflush size    : 64
>> cache_alignment : 64
>> address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
>> power management:
>> =====================================
>>
>> and lsmod
>>
>> =====================================
>> Module                  Size  Used by
>> perfmon_intel_core     58116  0
>> perfmon_pebs_smpl      36096  0
>> autofs4                57480  2
>> w83627hf               61976  0
>> w83781d                65840  0
>> hwmon_vid              36096  2 w83627hf,w83781d
>> lm92                   44304  0
>> i2c_isa                38016  0
>> hidp                   87296  0
>> nfs                   283992  2
>> lockd                 101808  2 nfs
>> nfs_acl                36864  1 nfs
>> rfcomm                106280  0
>> l2cap                  90112  4 hidp,rfcomm
>> bluetooth             122244  5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
>> sunrpc                214664  4 nfs,lockd,nfs_acl
>> xfrm4_mode_transport    35456  4
>> deflate                37248  0
>> zlib_deflate           53016  1 deflate
>> twofish                40064  0
>> twofish_common         69760  1 twofish
>> serpent                52096  0
>> aes                    59456  0
>> blowfish               42112  0
>> ecb                    36992  0
>> sha256                 41984  0
>> crypto_null            35968  0
>> af_key                103060  2
>> bonding               117600  0
>> nf_conntrack_netbios_ns    36352  0
>> xt_state               35840  4
>> iptable_filter         36352  1
>> ip_tables              55648  1 iptable_filter
>> video                  52496  0
>> sbs                    53392  0
>> button                 42272  0
>> battery                44296  0
>> ac                     39176  0
>> lp                     47312  0
>> floppy                 96040  0
>> sg                     70056  0
>> shpchp                 67356  0
>> e1000                 156480  0
>> i2c_i801               42268  0
>> 8250_pnp               45056  0
>> parport_pc             63912  1
>> 8250                  200136  1 8250_pnp
>> ide_cd                 73632  0
>> parport                73484  2 lp,parport_pc
>> serial_core            55680  1 8250
>> cdrom                  68776  1 ide_cd
>> dm_snapshot            49992  0
>> dm_zero                35200  0
>> dm_mirror              55040  0
>> ext3                  165392  2
>> jbd                    96496  1 ext3
>> ehci_hcd               67084  0
>> ohci_hcd               54660  0
>> uhci_hcd               58528  0
>>
>>
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