Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:51:34 +0200 | From | "Pekka Enberg" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool |
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On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > Seems a poor idea to me. Sure, oprofile is "hard to set up", but not if > your distributor already did it for you.
Have you tried sysprof? It's really nice to setup and use compared to oprofile when profiling user-space.
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > This code adds a new kernel->userspace interface which is not even > documented in code comments. It appears to use a pollable debugfs file in > /proc somewhere, carrying an unspecified payload.
Hmm, it does include <linux/proc_fs.h> but seems to set up a regular debugfs directory (usually mounted in /sys/debug) and not proc. Arjan?
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