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From: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com>
To: Geoffrey Blake <geoffrey.w.blake@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Profiling Java code running on Sun HotSpot JVM with linux perf
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:58:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E5F9D9A.3060307@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSP0QUEcbuxE6n0pb3rydaUuna_nLi-gPZVT6TXGS5OXMAK9A@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/31/2011 2:35 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Geoffrey Blake
> <geoffrey.w.blake@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am trying to profile some java server applications using %>perf
>> record -a, and as expected the majority of the execution time of these
>> applications is spent within jit'ed java code.  According to these
>> lists, the jit should be outputting a /tmp/perf-$pid.map file for each
>> thread being jit'ed.  The Sun JIT does not seem to have this output
>> enabled by default.  Does anyone here know what options I need to set
>> on the command line to get the JVM to output the symbol map files from
>> the JIT?
>
> I don't know the answer but if you don't get one here you could check
> the OProfile mailing list.  I believe there was a solution for JIT
> compilers with OProfile and people probably got popular JVMs like
> HotSpot working.  That might reveal what support HotSpot has for doing
> this.
Geoffrey,
I don't know if there's a way to get perf to show you profile information for 
Java class methods, but as Stefan said, you can indeed get this using oprofile. 
  See http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html and read every section with 
"JIT" in the title.

-Maynard

>
> Stefan
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-01 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-30 20:03 Profiling Java code running on Sun HotSpot JVM with linux perf Geoffrey Blake
2011-08-31  7:35 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-08-31  9:00   ` Maucci, Cyrille
2011-09-01 10:21     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-09-01 14:58   ` Maynard Johnson [this message]
2011-09-02 15:42     ` Geoffrey Blake

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