Re: [PATCH] Xenoprof patches for xen-unstable

[Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>]

Santos, Jose Renato G wrote:

>   hi,
> 
>   I have attached patches for enabling system wide profiling
>   using oprofile for xen unstable.
>   The patches were generated against change-set 1.1507 (May 22).
>   The 4 attached files are

Jose, thanks very much for this! I really needed it...

>   1) xenoprof.txt: 
> 	 - xenoprof overview and user guide
>   2) xenoprof-1.1-xen-3.0-devel.patch: 
>        - patch for xen
>   3) xenoprof-1.1-linux-2.6.11:
>        - patch for linux. Note that this needs to be applied
>          twice, once to linux-2.6.11-xen0 and once to 
>          linux-2.6.11-xenU. (This is different than the last
>          patch which was created against the linux sparse tree).
>   4) xenoprof-1.1-oprofile-0.8.2:
>        - patch for oprofile version 0.8.2
> 
>   Current known limitation/bugs are
>    - No support for SMP guests yet.
>    - when using passive domains, most samples are lost.

Excuse my ignorance - what exactly is a passive domain?

>   I will be working on these issues and post new patches
>   when I have them available.

thanks!

Nivedita