Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0 is distributed with OProfile 0.9.8, which provides a number of bug fixes and feature enhancements over the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system version and the version included in Red Hat Developer Toolset 1.1. Below is a comprehensive list of new features in this release.
The following features have been added since the release of OProfile included in Red Hat Developer Toolset 1.1:
- A new command line utility,
operf, has been added. This utility can be executed by a non-rootuser and can be used to collect profiling data.Important
Theoperfutility relies on a kernel feature that is currently not available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Consequently, this utility only works and is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. - OProfile now supports Intel processors code-named Ivy Bridge.
The following features have been added since the release of OProfile included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9:
- OProfile now supports AMD family11h, family12h, family14h, and AMD family15h processors.
- Generation of XML output has been corrected.
- Handling of the
--session-dircommand line option has been improved and a possible buffer overflow in the XML generator has been fixed.