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Re: AutoFDO profile toolchain is open-sourced
- From: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>
- To: Dehao Chen <dehao at google dot com>
- Cc: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>, Ilya Palachev <i dot palachev at samsung dot com>, Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, David Li <davidxl at google dot com>, Jan Hubicka <hubicka at ucw dot cz>, Sebastian Pop <sebpop at gmail dot com>, Vyacheslav Barinov <v dot barinov at samsung dot com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 19:24:36 +0200
- Subject: Re: AutoFDO profile toolchain is open-sourced
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> > BTW the biggest problem with autofdo currently is that it is
> > quite bitrotten and supports only several years old perf.
> > So all of this above will only work with old distributions,
> > unless you compile an old perf utility first.
>
> Do you mean newer perf does not support LBR (-b) any more?
No.
perf extended its perf.data output format, and quipper cannot parse
any of the extensions, so it just bombs out with assertation
failures.
I have a patch to hack around some of this, but still
couldn't get it actually to work so far.
-Andi
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