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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> | 2005-06-26 23:20:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@mtd.linutronix.de> | 2005-06-26 23:20:36 +0200 |
| commit | 7ca6448dbfb398bba36eda3c01bc14b86c3675be (patch) | |
| tree | 82d934ebf07f22a2c64c3b6d82ec24082878b43a /Documentation/basic_profiling.txt | |
| parent | f1f67a9874f1a4bba1adff6d694aa52e5f52ff1a (diff) | |
| parent | 7d681b23d6cc14a8c026ea6756242cb522cbbcae (diff) | |
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Merge with rsync://fileserver/linux
Update to Linus latest
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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. |