Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool

2008-02-23 Thread Soeren Sandmann
John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Soren wrote sysprof when he tried an earlier version of oprofile and > found it slightly non-obvious. Instead of doing any of these things: This is not accurate. Sysprof started by me adding a hierarchical call view to speedprof, a SIGPROF profiler which

Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool

2008-02-23 Thread Soeren Sandmann
John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Soren wrote sysprof when he tried an earlier version of oprofile and found it slightly non-obvious. Instead of doing any of these things: This is not accurate. Sysprof started by me adding a hierarchical call view to speedprof, a SIGPROF profiler which was

[PATCH] Include kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation in i386 and x86-64 Kconfig.

2007-10-21 Thread Soeren Sandmann
To get the kernel compiled with instrumentation turned on, I had to apply the patch below. It looks to me like x86 and x86-64 were just left out when the Kconfig.instrumentation file was created, but maybe I am misunderstanding how the x86/x86-64 merge is supposed to work. Soren Signed-off-by:

[PATCH] Include kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation in i386 and x86-64 Kconfig.

2007-10-21 Thread Soeren Sandmann
To get the kernel compiled with instrumentation turned on, I had to apply the patch below. It looks to me like x86 and x86-64 were just left out when the Kconfig.instrumentation file was created, but maybe I am misunderstanding how the x86/x86-64 merge is supposed to work. Soren Signed-off-by:

[PATCH] Add ability to dump mapped pages with /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

2007-09-30 Thread Soeren Sandmann
This patch adds the ability to drop mapped pages with /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. This is useful to get repeatable measurements of startup time for applications. Without it, pages that are mapped in already-running applications will not get dropped, so the time measured will not be a true

[PATCH] Add ability to dump mapped pages with /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

2007-09-30 Thread Soeren Sandmann
This patch adds the ability to drop mapped pages with /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. This is useful to get repeatable measurements of startup time for applications. Without it, pages that are mapped in already-running applications will not get dropped, so the time measured will not be a true