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| author | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pretzel.yyz.us> | 2005-06-27 05:42:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> | 2005-06-27 05:42:30 +0200 |
| commit | f45727d52d1581e9ff4df9d1a12a60789ad2d1eb (patch) | |
| tree | 773ae25f98542e6d382c688f7e85e8137d065614 /Documentation/basic_profiling.txt | |
| parent | Automatic merge of /spare/repo/netdev-2.6 branch we18-ieee80211 (diff) | |
| parent | Merge /spare/repo/linux-2.6/ (diff) | |
| download | linux-f45727d52d1581e9ff4df9d1a12a60789ad2d1eb.tar.xz linux-f45727d52d1581e9ff4df9d1a12a60789ad2d1eb.zip | |
Merge /spare/repo/netdev-2.6/ branch 'ieee80211'
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diff --git a/Documentation/basic_profiling.txt b/Documentation/basic_profiling.txt index 65e3dc2d4437..8764e9f70821 100644 --- a/Documentation/basic_profiling.txt +++ b/Documentation/basic_profiling.txt @@ -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. |