SIGPROF received ( profile timer expired )

[Mulyadi Santosa]

On 12/03/2011, अनिकेत आगाशे <agasheac at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am facing problem in running an application over character driver written
> by me.  I wanted to profile that application (time required for each system
> call) so I compiled it using gcc -pg option. But some time i am receiving
> SIGPROF signal during ioctl() system call.
>
> Is there any way we can control profile timer's value ? or some other way to
> get rid of this problem.

hm, how about using TSC?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Stamp_Counter


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Mulyadi Santosa
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