From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>
To: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Enable kernel profiling with stepping of 1
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:50:17 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020903125017.F21589@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0209022031240.912-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>; from hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca on Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:38:22PM -0400
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:38:22PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > and the profiling buffer is half the size of kernel text; 2 insns hash on to
>
> s/insns/bytes of code/
Yep.. I was speaking in terms of the smallest possible size for a insn.
>
> > Profiling with step=1 will help us do insn level profiling with better
> > granularity
>
> I guess this means you want to do insn- or line-wise profiling, rather
> than the original point of this feature (function-wise).
Exactly.
Thanks,
Kiran
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2002-09-02 8:17 [patch] Enable kernel profiling with stepping of 1 Ravikiran G Thirumalai
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