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1These instructions are deliberately very basic. If you want something clever,
2go read the real docs ;-) Please don't add more stuff, but feel free to
3correct my mistakes ;-) (mbligh@aracnet.com)
4Thanks to John Levon, Dave Hansen, et al. for help writing this.
5
6<test> is the thing you're trying to measure.
7Make sure you have the correct System.map / vmlinux referenced!
8
9It is probably easiest to use "make install" for linux and hack
10/sbin/installkernel to copy vmlinux to /boot, in addition to vmlinuz,
11config, System.map, which are usually installed by default.
12
13Readprofile
14-----------
15A recent readprofile command is needed for 2.6, such as found in util-linux
162.12a, which can be downloaded from:
17
18http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/
19
20Most distributions will ship it already.
21
22Add "profile=2" to the kernel command line.
23
24clear readprofile -r
25 <test>
26dump output readprofile -m /boot/System.map > captured_profile
27
28Oprofile
29--------
30
31Get the source (see Changes for required version) from
32http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/ and add "idle=poll" to the kernel command
33line.
34
35Configure with CONFIG_PROFILING=y and CONFIG_OPROFILE=y & reboot on new kernel
36
37./configure --with-kernel-support
38make install
39
40For superior results, be sure to enable the local APIC. If opreport sees
41a 0Hz CPU, APIC was not on. Be aware that idle=poll may mean a performance
42penalty.
43
44One time setup:
45 opcontrol --setup --vmlinux=/boot/vmlinux
46
47clear opcontrol --reset
48start opcontrol --start
49 <test>
50stop opcontrol --stop
51dump output opreport > output_file
52
53To only report on the kernel, run opreport -l /boot/vmlinux > output_file
54
55A reset is needed to clear old statistics, which survive a reboot.
56