Re: Oprofile : need to adjust PC by 16 bytes

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:02:19PM +0100, stephane eranian wrote:

Thanks for explaining it better than I could.

Just a minor correction.

> But it can be very large when overflow happens
> during a kernel critical section
> where interrupts are off.

Actually oprofile uses the NMI to avoid that particular problem.
It still has limits, e.g. no profiling of SMM sections.

> There is nothing SW can do about all of this.

Yes profiling on a out of order machine is hard.

> Furthermore, PEBS can record samples while
> in kernel critical sections. 

Again with oprofile that works too without PEBS.

-Andi
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