[CentOS] How to install binutils-devel on Centos Linux 5.5

2011-04-21 Thread Frank Chang
Good morning, I am trying to install binutils-devel on Centos Linux 5.5 so that we can obtain lib liberty required by the oprofile-0.9.6 Linux profiler. Using root , I enter: yum local install binutils-devel-2.20.51.0.7-6.fc14.i686.rpm. Then I get the message: Public key for binutils-deve

Re: [CentOS] How to install binutils-devel on Centos Linux5.5

2011-04-21 Thread Frank Chang
Simon Matter and Ned Slider, Thank you for your answers. This afternoon , I installed binutils-devel on Centos Linux 5.5. Then , I installed all the QT packages except for the two QT client packages. When I ran ./configure --with-kernel-support on the OProfile Linux profiler distr

Re: [CentOS] QT and oprofile on Centos Linux 5.5

2011-04-22 Thread Frank Chang
Philip Schaffner, Thank you for your reply. I guess we will have to wait until Centos 6 arrives to get a working QT. Did you see Nicolas Thierry-Mieg's response regarding yum install oprofile-gui. We were able to install oprofile-guii.i386 0:0.9.4-15.el5.centos and oprofile.i386 0.0.9.4.

Re: [CentOS] yum install oprofile-gui

2011-04-22 Thread Frank Chang
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg, We followed your instructions to yum install oprofile-gui. We were able to install oprofile-guii.i386 0:0.9.4-15.el5.centos and oprofile.i386 0.0.9.4.15.el.5.centos. I was wondering what our next step should be. I tried ./configure --with-kernel-support with oprofi

[CentOS] Valgrind/Callgrind 3.6.1 does not appear to work on Centos Linux 5.5

2011-04-22 Thread Frank Chang
Hi, For the last day or two I having been trying to get Valgrind/Callgrind 3.6.1 to work on Centos Linux 5.5 using a simple Fibonacci C++ program(shown below). After compiling the program using g++ -g -o MatchUpAccurate MatchUpAccurate.cpp, we run: /home/frankc/DQTTest/valgrind-3.6.1/core

[CentOS] Re; Valgrind/Callgrind 3.6.1 does not appear to work on Centos Linux 5.5

2011-04-23 Thread Frank Chang
Tru Huynh, Thank you for your reply. When I enter uname -a I obtain the following output: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5PAE #1 SMP Tue Nov 9 13:34:42 EST 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux. This information indicates we are using x86_32 architecture rather than a x86_64 architect

[CentOS] opreport version 0.9.4 on Centos Linux 5.5

2011-04-26 Thread Frank Chang
Nicholas Thierry-Mieg, Thank you for your reply on Saturday Apr 23,2011. Since then I have been trying to learn how to use oprofile 0.9.4 on Centos Linux 5.5. If I follow the following steps running as root, opcontrol --shutdown opcontrol --callgraph=7 opcontrol --image=/home/frankc/DQTT

[CentOS] Centos 5.5 mmap.c and mmap hints

2011-05-15 Thread Frank Chang
Good morning, We are trying to figure out how to properly provide adresss hints to mmap on 32-bit Centos 5.5. Does any documentation exist about to how to provide address hints to mmap on 32-bit Centos 5.5? If so, where can we find this documentation. In order to understand mmap better, w

[CentOS] How to resolve Centos Linux Version 5.5 x86_32 C​allgrind Version 3.6.1 cg_annotat​​​e : Line 1 Missing command line error?

2011-05-24 Thread Frank Chang
Good afternoon, We are running callgrind and cg_annotate version 3.6.1 on Centos Linux Version 5.5 x86_32. One month ago Mr. Josef Weidenorfer issued a special patch that fixed callgrind on Centos Linux Version 5.5 x86_32. We can now profile complex C++ programs which use our own shared library l

[CentOS] Where is the Centos Linux 5.5 kernel syscall handler for mmap?

2011-05-27 Thread Frank Chang
Good evening, We are using Centos Linux Release 5.5 x86_32. We wondering where the kernel syscall handler for mmap in Centos Linux 5.5 distribution is located(for example /usr/xxx/)? Would any programmers or operating system administrators have this information? Thank you.

Re: [CentOS] Where is the Centos Linux 5.5 kernel syscall handler for mmap? (Keith Roberts)

2011-05-29 Thread Frank Chang
Keith Roberts, Thank you for your suggestion about doing a grep of the source code. We found mmap.S in ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386. We looked in mmap.S and found a lot of assembly code. Could you please tell us if any of the assembly code call the kernel syscall handler for mmap.s?