Re: [patch] Enable kernel profiling with stepping of 1

From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai (kiran@in.ibm.com)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 02:20:17 EST


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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