On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> You have to be careful with the versin of libpfm you are using. Due
> to additions of system calls, the perfmon syscalls get bumped and
> if you have a mismatch between what libpfm knows and what the kernel uses
> you get into this situation. 
> 
> If you tell me which kernel patch you are using I can tell you which libpfm
> to use.

Just pointed out the possible mis-match solved the problem.  i was using 
the 0322 kernel patch to match 2.6.16.20 but had libpfm0522, jumping back 
to 0322 for libpfm corrected the problem.  pfmon-0522 appears to work fine 
with the older 0322 libpfm.  is this ok to do in the long run, or should i 
always use matching kernal/lib/pfmon versions?

are things moving fast enough in development it is worth always using the 
newest (.17_rc5 currently) patches/libs/tools or is the libpfm 
userspace api remaining fairly stable?  and the in kernel api?

thanks for the tip
-dwn
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