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authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@shinybook.infradead.org>2005-07-02 14:39:09 +0200
committerDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@shinybook.infradead.org>2005-07-02 14:39:09 +0200
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parentAUDIT: Use KERN_NOTICE for printk of audit records (diff)
parent[PATCH] alpha smp fix (part #2) (diff)
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Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
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@@ -27,9 +27,13 @@ dump output readprofile -m /boot/System.map > captured_profile
Oprofile
--------
-Get the source (I use 0.8) from http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/
-and add "idle=poll" to the kernel command line
+
+Get the source (see Changes for required version) from
+http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/ and add "idle=poll" to the kernel command
+line.
+
Configure with CONFIG_PROFILING=y and CONFIG_OPROFILE=y & reboot on new kernel
+
./configure --with-kernel-support
make install
@@ -46,7 +50,7 @@ start opcontrol --start
stop opcontrol --stop
dump output opreport > output_file
-To only report on the kernel, run opreport /boot/vmlinux > output_file
+To only report on the kernel, run opreport -l /boot/vmlinux > output_file
A reset is needed to clear old statistics, which survive a reboot.