8.139. papi

Bug Fixes

BZ#740909

Due to missing dependencies in the makefile, a parallel rebuild of the PAPI library failed. With this update, new rules have been added to the makefile to address this problem. As a result, PAPI can be successfully rebuild in the described scenario.

BZ#785258

Previously, when Hyper-threading was enabled on the Intel Xeon Processor E5-XXXX node, the PAPI libary could not configure the performance-monitoring hardware to count floating-point operations. This bug has been fixed and the aforementioned error no longer occurs.

BZ#883475

Due to an incorrect ldconfig setting in the papi.spec file, papi failed to be rebuilt from the srpm file when the process was executed by the root user. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to fix this bug.

BZ#883766

Previously, the papi package failed to be built from the srpm file when a previous version of papi was installed. During the build, the new version of papi attempted to link to the libpfm.so file of the previously installed papi-devel package, which caused papi to terminate unexpectedly. With this update, a patch has been introduced to reorder the sequence of file linking during the build, so that the locally built files are used first. As a result, papi is built correctly with previous version installed.

Enhancements

BZ#726798, BZ#831751, BZ#947622

Support for the Intel Xeon Processor E5-XXXX and Intel Xeon Processor E5-XXXX architectures has been added to the PAPI library.

BZ#743648

Support for access to various energy and performance registers through PAPI has been added.

BZ#785975

With this update, several minor grammatical errors have been corrected in the PAPI interface.

BZ#866590

The papi-static subpackage has been added to provide the libraries for static linking.

BZ#910163

The papi-testsuite subpackage has been added to allow testing of papi.