scratch build = http://s390.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1536382

and couldn't the individual lock implementations in linux-lock.h be switched to gcc primitives?

How much testing has this gotten beyond fixing the ftbfs for PAPI on s390?  Any results from "make fulltest"? tWould it be possible for you to post the patch on the papi developer list perfapi-devel.edu and work to get it upstream?

There is the configure option --with-pthread-mutexes is that is meant by "gcc primitives."

Michal, could you look on it as a part of the large InfiniBand enablement on s390? Thanks, Dan

Created attachment 971298 [details]
Some failures during the s390 build of papi

There is a lot more work required to get PAPI working on s390 than changing the spec file.  There are a number of architecture specific defines that have not yet been setup for s390 as shown by the output of an attempted build.

I generated a patch and made edited out the infiniband support so that I have a buildable papi rpm for s390.  There appears to be some s390 implementations that have libpfm support, but on the particular s390 machine I was experimenting on "perf list" and "papi_native_avail" didn't list any hardware event available.  The scratch build with the patch and changed papi.spec is available at:

http://s390.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1656211

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