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From: "W. Michael Petullo" <mike@flyn.org>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	"dunlapg@gmail.com" <dunlapg@gmail.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	"Lv, Hui" <hui.lv@intel.com>
Subject: Re: About the oprofile tools and related profiling tools
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 11:21:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110531162104.GA5666@imp.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110531160256.GB31659@dumpdata.com>

>> Thanks Konrad and George!
>> 
>> I have tried Mike Petullo's patched pvops domain0 and xenoprofile on it can work. 
>> 
>> But I did not get the right sample results of HVM guest (No samples
>> obtained). So I guess, something should be wrong from hypervisor part
>> in profiling HVM guest.
>> 
>> So did anyone successfully profile the HVM based guest using this patch?
 
> You might want to email Mike to ask that.

I have only used my variation of the 2.6.39 OProfile patch to passively
profile a PV kernel. Note that most of the work was done previously;
all I did was port it to Linux 2.6.39. I have not tried it on a HVM
kernel. My latest 2.6.39 patch is at:

http://www.flyn.org/patches/linux-xen-passive-oprofile/linux-2.6.39.rc5.git5-xen-passive-oprofile.patch.gz

-- 
Mike

:wq

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-31 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-30  3:25 About the oprofile tools and related profiling tools Lv, Hui
2011-05-31  9:44 ` George Dunlap
2011-05-31 14:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-05-31 15:42   ` Lv, Hui
2011-05-31 16:02     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-05-31 16:21       ` W. Michael Petullo [this message]
2011-06-01  0:16         ` Lv, Hui

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