kernel profiling broken?
Hiten Pandya
hmp at backplane.com
Sat Jul 30 05:32:50 PDT 2005
Sascha Wildner wrote:
Sascha Wildner wrote:
Without it, I got errors that pasting . and mcount won't result in a
valid preprocessor token or somesuch. Just try yourself.
During make depend it was, iirc.
Sascha
Either way its useless because kernel profiling is broken at the timer
level. We need to fix the profiling timer to make use of systimers and
account at per-cpu level. If someone could fix that it would be very helpful.
Hiten
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