kernel profiling broken?

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Sat Jul 30 04:20:23 PDT 2005


On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 11:22:43AM +0200, Sascha Wildner wrote:
> my last commit to sys/conf/Makefile.i386 plus the included patch to 
> asmacros.h (of which I'm not sure if it is the correct way) enable me to 
> build a profiling kernel. But then, gprof gives me:

It is not correct. Actually, I don't know why you want or need to change
that. This is used constantly e.g. in libc. I'm not sure what breaks
gprof, can you drop me the gmon.out somewhereon leaf?

Joerg





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