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OProfile is a Profiling tool which is particularly useful for looking at all programs on a Linux system including the LinuxKernel if you are doing KernelDevelopment.

The home page for this project is at http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/

Steps to use OProfile: (To be completed as IanMcDonald documents and gets it working)

  • Install OProfile
  • Build LinuxKernel with profiling support (Under Instrumentation Support for kernel when building)
  • Install kernel including vmlinux (not just vmlinuz). See script on KernelDevelopment
  • Reset stats if needed with sudo opcontrol --reset (Stats get carried over after reboots)
  • Start with sudo opcontrol --start --vmlinux=/boot/vmlinux-myname (where myname is whatever you've called vmlinux)
  • Run your task
  • Stop with sudo opcontrol --stop
  • Use opreport command to run reports (see man page for details)