Re: Using perf on AMD 15h

2015-06-06 Thread Mahmood Naderan
Bringing up my question one more time since it may be lost in the high volume of messages. Hope to receive an idea... On 6/6/15, Mahmood Naderan wrote: > Hi Guys, > My first question is, does the version of kernel affects the perf > functionality? I mean fixing bugs and ... > Currently, the ke

Using perf on AMD 15h

2015-06-05 Thread Mahmood Naderan
Hi Guys, My first question is, does the version of kernel affects the perf functionality? I mean fixing bugs and ... Currently, the kernel version is 2.6.39 and here is the problem: According tot he BKDG of AMD 15h, it is possbile to disable the hardware prefetcher by setting some bits of MSRC001_