Re: Questions about OProfile

["W. Michael Petullo" <mike@flyn.org>]

>>>> First, what is the status of Xenoprof? The latest patch is against 0.9.5,
>>>> but OProfile 0.9.6 is about 16 months old. Is Xenoprof actively
>>>> maintained?

>>> There is a crufty pv_ops patch that I forward ported to 2.6.32 in this tree:
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/avsm/linux-2.6.32-xen-oprofile

>> So, is it true that I need to 1) use this patch or 2) use a non-PV
>> Ops Dom0? I thought 2.6.32 was already non-PV Ops.
 
> I don't understand the question. The above tree is a pv_ops kernel,
> with additional patches applied so it can be a full Xen dom0 (including
> netback, etc).  I'm only sporadically updating it as I need to, so you
> probably just want the oprofile patch [1] if you want to apply it to
> some other kernel.

> https://github.com/avsm/linux-2.6.32-xen-oprofile/commit/4df4780e638d14249b7aa4005511218a9183c324

Thanks, Anil. I was able to get your patch to work. If anyone is
interested in what I did, please see:

	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693596#c2

An a related note, would there be any interest in cleaning up this patch
and moving it to 2.6.38 as a part of Google Summer of Code?

-- 
Mike

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