HP Caliper HP-UX Release Notes

1 Highlights of This Release
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For more information about these highlights, see the HP Caliper User Guide.
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New Options and Enhancements in 5.2
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
Deletions
None.
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