Profiling my Modules

Daniel Baluta daniel.baluta at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 08:42:57 EDT 2012


On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Rishi Agrawal
<rishi.b.agrawal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a kernel module which has functions which take a lot of time in
> execution. I am curious to know how can I profile it, and find out the
> functions taking most of the time.
>
> I saw Oprofile, but it seems that I will have to build the whole kernel, and
> also that it will be difficult to profile my module through it.
>
> Any trick or tool will do.

Hello,

Have a look at perf [1].

thanks,
Daniel.

[1] https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/



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