Re: 2.6.0-test3-mm1

[Martin J. Bligh]

>> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:17:04PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>>> Buggered if I know what Letext is doing there ???
>>>       6577     3.9% total
>>>       1157     0.0% Letext
>>>        937     0.0% direct_strnlen_user
>>>        748   440.0% filp_close
>>>        722    21.2% __copy_from_user_ll
>>>        610     2.6% page_remove_rmap
>>>        492   487.1% file_ra_state_init
>>>        452    12.4% find_get_page
>>>        405     7.6% __copy_to_user_ll
>>>        402    28.6% schedule
>>>        386     0.0% kpmd_ctor
>>>        348     4.4% __d_lookup
>>>        310    16.6% atomic_dec_and_lock
>>>        300   174.4% may_open
>> 
>> You can figure out what it is by reading addresses directly out of
>> /proc/profile that would correspond to it (i.e. modifying readprofile)
>> and correlating it with an area of text in a disassembled kernel.
> 
> Was more interested in which patch screwed up the profiling really ...
> I suspect someone knows already ;-)

Looks to me like all the .text.lock.foo stuff got dumped under Letext
actually .... oops. Sometime between test2-mm1 and test2-mm3, I think?

M.

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