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Basic kernel profiling
======================
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
These instructions are deliberately very basic. If you want something clever,
Documentation/basic_profiling.rst: convert to ReST markup Convert it to ReST markup and add it to the user book: - Add a title to the document; - touch spaces/new lines to fix Sphinx format; - use ``foo`` for commands; - use quote blocks where needed; - add it to the user book; Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-09-22 00:38:38 +08:00
go read the real docs ;-)
Please don't add more stuff, but feel free to
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
correct my mistakes ;-) (mbligh@aracnet.com)
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2016-09-22 00:38:38 +08:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
Thanks to John Levon, Dave Hansen, et al. for help writing this.
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2016-09-22 00:38:38 +08:00
``<test>`` is the thing you're trying to measure.
Make sure you have the correct ``System.map`` / ``vmlinux`` referenced!
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
Documentation/basic_profiling.rst: convert to ReST markup Convert it to ReST markup and add it to the user book: - Add a title to the document; - touch spaces/new lines to fix Sphinx format; - use ``foo`` for commands; - use quote blocks where needed; - add it to the user book; Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-09-22 00:38:38 +08:00
It is probably easiest to use ``make install`` for linux and hack
``/sbin/installkernel`` to copy ``vmlinux`` to ``/boot``, in addition to
``vmlinuz``, ``config``, ``System.map``, which are usually installed by default.
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
Readprofile
-----------
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2016-09-22 00:38:38 +08:00
A recent ``readprofile`` command is needed for 2.6, such as found in util-linux
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
2.12a, which can be downloaded from:
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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
Most distributions will ship it already.
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2016-09-22 00:38:38 +08:00
Add ``profile=2`` to the kernel command line.
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
Documentation/basic_profiling.rst: convert to ReST markup Convert it to ReST markup and add it to the user book: - Add a title to the document; - touch spaces/new lines to fix Sphinx format; - use ``foo`` for commands; - use quote blocks where needed; - add it to the user book; Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-09-22 00:38:38 +08:00
Some ``readprofile`` commands::
clear readprofile -r
<test>
dump output readprofile -m /boot/System.map > captured_profile
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
Oprofile
--------
[PATCH] oprofile: report anonymous region samples The below patch passes samples from anonymous regions to userspace instead of just dropping them. This provides the support needed for reporting anonymous-region code samples (today: basic accumulated results; later: Java and other dynamically compiled code). As this changes the format, an upgrade to the just-released 0.9 release of the userspace tools is required. This patch is based upon an earlier one by Will Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 13:02:47 +08:00
Get the source (see Changes for required version) from
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2016-09-22 00:38:38 +08:00
http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/ and add ``idle=poll`` to the kernel command
[PATCH] oprofile: report anonymous region samples The below patch passes samples from anonymous regions to userspace instead of just dropping them. This provides the support needed for reporting anonymous-region code samples (today: basic accumulated results; later: Java and other dynamically compiled code). As this changes the format, an upgrade to the just-released 0.9 release of the userspace tools is required. This patch is based upon an earlier one by Will Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 13:02:47 +08:00
line.
Documentation/basic_profiling.rst: convert to ReST markup Convert it to ReST markup and add it to the user book: - Add a title to the document; - touch spaces/new lines to fix Sphinx format; - use ``foo`` for commands; - use quote blocks where needed; - add it to the user book; Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-09-22 00:38:38 +08:00
Configure with ``CONFIG_PROFILING=y`` and ``CONFIG_OPROFILE=y`` & reboot on new kernel::
[PATCH] oprofile: report anonymous region samples The below patch passes samples from anonymous regions to userspace instead of just dropping them. This provides the support needed for reporting anonymous-region code samples (today: basic accumulated results; later: Java and other dynamically compiled code). As this changes the format, an upgrade to the just-released 0.9 release of the userspace tools is required. This patch is based upon an earlier one by Will Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 13:02:47 +08:00
Documentation/basic_profiling.rst: convert to ReST markup Convert it to ReST markup and add it to the user book: - Add a title to the document; - touch spaces/new lines to fix Sphinx format; - use ``foo`` for commands; - use quote blocks where needed; - add it to the user book; Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-09-22 00:38:38 +08:00
./configure --with-kernel-support
make install
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
For superior results, be sure to enable the local APIC. If opreport sees
a 0Hz CPU, APIC was not on. Be aware that idle=poll may mean a performance
penalty.
Documentation/basic_profiling.rst: convert to ReST markup Convert it to ReST markup and add it to the user book: - Add a title to the document; - touch spaces/new lines to fix Sphinx format; - use ``foo`` for commands; - use quote blocks where needed; - add it to the user book; Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-09-22 00:38:38 +08:00
One time setup::
opcontrol --setup --vmlinux=/boot/vmlinux
Some ``opcontrol`` commands::
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
Documentation/basic_profiling.rst: convert to ReST markup Convert it to ReST markup and add it to the user book: - Add a title to the document; - touch spaces/new lines to fix Sphinx format; - use ``foo`` for commands; - use quote blocks where needed; - add it to the user book; Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-09-22 00:38:38 +08:00
clear opcontrol --reset
start opcontrol --start
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
<test>
Documentation/basic_profiling.rst: convert to ReST markup Convert it to ReST markup and add it to the user book: - Add a title to the document; - touch spaces/new lines to fix Sphinx format; - use ``foo`` for commands; - use quote blocks where needed; - add it to the user book; Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-09-22 00:38:38 +08:00
stop opcontrol --stop
dump output opreport > output_file
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
Documentation/basic_profiling.rst: convert to ReST markup Convert it to ReST markup and add it to the user book: - Add a title to the document; - touch spaces/new lines to fix Sphinx format; - use ``foo`` for commands; - use quote blocks where needed; - add it to the user book; Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-09-22 00:38:38 +08:00
To only report on the kernel, run ``opreport -l /boot/vmlinux > output_file``
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-17 06:20:36 +08:00
A reset is needed to clear old statistics, which survive a reboot.