From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Akinobu Mita <amgta@yacht.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: subj: [PATHC] user-defined profiling
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 09:39:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041101173905.GM2583@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411020133.53562.amgta@yacht.ocn.ne.jp>
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 01:33:53AM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> This patch provides support for user-defined profiling. It is
> inspired by scheduler profiling.
> If you put the following code into interesting function
> profile_hit(USR_PROFILNG, __buildin_return_address(0));
> and boot with profile=user then the readprofile shows which functions
> called it, and how many times.
> Furthermore I much prefer to insert the user-defined profile point
> with Kprobe. This is why the profile_hits() was exported.
> Please apply.
> Signed-off-by Akinobu Mita <amgta@yacht.ocn.ne.jp>
It makes sense, though I wouldn't mind getting a look at who calls this.
Looking at the callee in isolation leaves me vaguely puzzled.
-- wli
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2004-11-01 16:33 subj: [PATHC] user-defined profiling Akinobu Mita
2004-11-01 16:49 ` [PATCH] " Akinobu Mita
2004-11-01 17:39 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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