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Mon Mar 7 14:47:09 2005 Søren Sandmann <sandmann@redhat.com> * README: Add note that you need to compile the module with the same compiler that compiled the kernel.
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Mon Mar 7 14:47:09 2005 Søren Sandmann <sandmann@redhat.com>
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* README: Add note that you need to compile the module with
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the same compiler that compiled the kernel.
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Sun Mar 6 22:56:21 2005 Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@redhat.com>
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* sfile.c: Generate id's for objects and pointers.
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This is a sampling profiler that uses a kernel module, sysprof-module,
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Sysprof is a sampling profiler that uses a kernel module, sysprof-module.ko,
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to generate stacktraces which are then interpreted by the userspace
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program "sysprof".
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- There is no auto* stuff. Just type "make" and hope for the best
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- You need gtk+ 2.4.0 or better. If you are using gtk+ 2.5 or newer
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- You need gtk+ 2.4.0 or better. If you are using gtk+ 2.6 or newer
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you also need libglade cvs HEAD.
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- You need a 2.6 kernel. On SMP kernels the module seems to crash the system
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from time to time, so you might want to stick with UP kernels.
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- You need a 2.6 kernel. On SMP kernels the module produces unreliable data.
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- The module must be compiled with the same compiler that compiled the
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kernel it is going to be used with. For most systems that is just
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the system compiler, but if you have upgraded your kernel it is
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possible the one was compiled with a difference compiler.
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In that case, "insmod sysprof-module.ko" will produce this
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error message:
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insmod: error inserting './sysprof-module.o': -1 Invalid module format
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- The programs you want to profile should have debugging symbols, or
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you won't get much usable information. On a Fedora Core system,
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