Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765497AbYBTSQx (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:16:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755084AbYBTSQm (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:16:42 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:48357 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751511AbYBTSQl (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:16:41 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool From: Peter Zijlstra To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, sandmann@redhat.com, tglx@tglx.de, hpa@zytor.com In-Reply-To: <20080219123756.6261c13c@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <20080219123756.6261c13c@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:16:15 +0100 Message-Id: <1203531375.6243.52.camel@lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.21.90 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 789 Lines: 20 On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 12:37 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > From: Soren Sandmann > Subject: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool > > The sysprof tool is a very easy to use GUI tool to find out where > userspace is spending CPU time. See > http://www.daimi.au.dk/~sandmann/sysprof/ > for more information and screenshots on this tool. > > Sysprof needs a 200 line kernel module to do it's work, this > module puts some simple profiling data into debugfs. What is the added value over oprofile? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/