HP Caliper for HP-UX Release Notes Release 5.5 (5900-2350, September 2012)

6 Changes in Previous Releases
This section describes changes for the three releases prior to this one.
Changes in Release 5.3
New Options and Enhancements
The HP Caliper 5.3 release has the following improvements:
• A new option --sw-process-list, is added. This option is used in the system-wide mode
(-w option) to specify a list processes to analyze. This option is used to reduce the overhead
of Caliper in the system-wide mode.
• HP Caliper is enhanced to read debug information from +objdebug compiled object files
and debug side files. HP Caliper previously read debug information only from executable
binaries and load modules. A new option --debug-file-path is added to specify a list
of directories to search for the +objdebug object files.
Deprecations
None.
Deletions
None.
Changes in Release 5.2
New Options and Enhancements
The HP Caliper 5.2 release has the following improvements:
• Support is added for the quad-core Intel® Itanium® processor 9300 series.
• Support is added for simultaneous fprof sampling on multiple PMU counters. The -s or
--sampling-spec option can be used multiple times to specify the list of sampling events.
• New details are added to the Blocking Primitive section of the Call Stack Profile report with
thread synchronization primitive's holder and waiter thread analysis (HP-UX 11.31 only).
• A new option, --percent-sample=threads|process, is added. This option displays
thread details with the percentage data for samples collected for each thread or for a process.
• A new cstack enhancement option, --stop-functions is added to specify the list of
kernel stop functions. This list is used to avoid unnecessary kernel unwinding.
Deprecations
The following Caliper options are deprecated as of this release and will be deleted in a future
release:
• All instrumentation measurements(cgprof, fcover, and fcount)
• --module-default/include/exclude
• --inlines
• --latency-buckets
• --per-module-data
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