>Other than /dev/profile, is there any mechanism available for
>profiling the kernel? For example, has anyone implemented a
>__mcount() function to handle a kernel compiled with -pg, or is this
>even possible?
Yes I just developed that. You'll continue to use readprofile and
/proc/profile but what you'll get is the real profiling numbers via
mcount.
Grab the IKD patch:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/andrea/ikd/
There's the 2.2.x versions only since I had not need of it into 2.3.x (yet
:). Anyway the porting should be trivial playing a bit with rejects.
Andrea
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