Oprofile
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-Get the source (I use 0.8) from http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/
-and add "idle=poll" to the kernel command line
+
+Get the source (see Changes for required version) from
+http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/ and add "idle=poll" to the kernel command
+line.
+
Configure with CONFIG_PROFILING=y and CONFIG_OPROFILE=y & reboot on new kernel
+
./configure --with-kernel-support
make install
stop opcontrol --stop
dump output opreport > output_file
-To only report on the kernel, run opreport /boot/vmlinux > output_file
+To only report on the kernel, run opreport -l /boot/vmlinux > output_file
A reset is needed to clear old statistics, which survive a reboot.