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| author | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pretzel.yyz.us> | 2005-06-26 17:11:03 -0400 |
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| committer | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> | 2005-06-26 17:11:03 -0400 |
| commit | 8b0ee07e108b2eefdab5bb73f33223f18926c3b2 (patch) | |
| tree | f68ca04180c5488301a40ec212ef2eb2467cf56c /Documentation/basic_profiling.txt | |
| parent | 4638aef40ba9ebb9734caeed1f373c24015259fd (diff) | |
| parent | 8678887e7fb43cd6c9be6c9807b05e77848e0920 (diff) | |
Merge upstream (approx. 2.6.12-git8) into 'janitor' branch of netdev-2.6.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/basic_profiling.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/basic_profiling.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
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. |