This is useful because we might not have access to kernel symbols from
user applications which are not root. Various distributions are starting
to censor kernel addresses without root.
This allows the clients to fetch the symbol addresses without having to
be root themselves.
This is a major redesign a modernization of Sysprof. The core data
structures and design are largely the same, but it has been ported to
Gtk3 and has lots of additions that should make your profiling experience
smoother. Especially for those that are new to profiling.
There are some very simple help docs added, but we really need the
experts to come in and write some documentation here.