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To: Steffen Persvold <sp@scali.com>
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Subject: Re: Kernel profiling
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 12 Mar 2002 22:17:41 +0100
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Steffen Persvold <sp@scali.com> writes:

> List readers,
> 
> Is it possible to use the kernel profiling functionality to do profiling on loadable modules ? If
> no, is there any other easy method ?

Either compile the module in or use oprofile (http://oprofile.sourceforge.net)
The later is better, because it is a much more powerful profiler than 
the builtin one. 

-Andi
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