Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:58:05 +0100
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On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 19:53 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 10:39 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:16:15 +0100
> > Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 12:37 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > > From: Soren Sandmann <sandmann@redhat.com>
> > > > 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?
> > 
> > it actually works and is usable by humans ;)
> 
> # sysprof
> 
> (sysprof:12480): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> 
> -ENOX

Usable for me is a cli interface. Also, I absolutely love opannotate.

For a fact, most of my professional userspace development days, I had to
profile on remote machines with no X.

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