Support for ARM?

[awesan]

Are there plans to support PAPI on ARM processors on Linux?

[vweaver1]

Are there plans to support PAPI on ARM processors on Linux?

Support for ARM Cortex A8 and A9 is available in the current PAPI CVS if you configure with --with-libpfm4.
Support for older CPUs is probably possible (if Linux supoprts it) but would require extra work on the PAPI side.

[Papi_user01]

I get going on current experiments of configuration and compilation attempts for ARM cross compiling.

Papi version used: 4.1.4 (should be the latest)

We use the cross compiler: codesourcery (arm-none-linux-gnuabi)
Configuration options used:

./configure --host=arm-none-linux-gnuabi --with-ffsll --with-walltimer=clock_realtime_hr --with-tls=(?)tls --with-virtualtimer=clock_cputime_id --with-OS=linux --with-CPU=arm --with-lipfm4

We have errors at compile time:

"_papi_hwd_lock/unlock undefined"
and asm error
and "_papi_hwi_my_thread undeclared"

Has anyone an idea of the trouble, and how to fix these errors?

[vweaver1]

I get going on current experiments of configuration and compilation attempts for ARM cross compiling.

Papi version used: 4.1.4 (should be the latest)

We use the cross compiler: codesourcery (arm-none-linux-gnuabi)
Configuration options used:

./configure --host=arm-none-linux-gnuabi --with-ffsll --with-walltimer=clock_realtime_hr --with-tls=(?)tls --with-virtualtimer=clock_cputime_id --with-OS=linux --with-CPU=arm --with-lipfm4

We have errors at compile time:

"_papi_hwd_lock/unlock undefined"
and asm error
and "_papi_hwi_my_thread undeclared"

Has anyone an idea of the trouble, and how to fix these errors?

What type of ARM system are you targeting?

I have not tested ARM with cross compile so things might be broken. Also some of the low-level locking primitives have not been tested well, hence many of the warnings when compiling.

[fayindark]

I get going on current experiments of configuration and compilation attempts for ARM cross compiling.

Papi version used: 4.1.4 (should be the latest)

We use the cross compiler: codesourcery (arm-none-linux-gnuabi)
Configuration options used:

./configure --host=arm-none-linux-gnuabi --with-ffsll --with-walltimer=clock_realtime_hr --with-tls=(?)tls --with-virtualtimer=clock_cputime_id --with-OS=linux --with-CPU=arm --with-lipfm4

We have errors at compile time:

"_papi_hwd_lock/unlock undefined"
and asm error
and "_papi_hwi_my_thread undeclared"

Has anyone an idea of the trouble, and how to fix these errors?

What type of ARM system are you targeting?

I have not tested ARM with cross compile so things might be broken. Also some of the low-level locking primitives have not been tested well, hence many of the warnings when compiling.

I want to use PAPI on beagleboard. I am not sure if it supports the OMAP3530 or Linux kernel 2.6.32. Anyone knows this?