linux-kernel - Re: Oprofile : need to adjust PC by 16 bytes

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Message-ID: <20081117152434.GM6703@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:24:34 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	eranian@...il.com
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>,
	oprofile-list@...ts.sf.net, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Jiri Benc <jbenc@...e.cz>,
	Vilem Marsik <vmarsik@...e.cz>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oprofile : need to adjust PC by 16 bytes

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 04:02:19PM +0100, stephane eranian wrote:

Thanks for explaining it better than I could.

Just a minor correction.

> But it can be very large when overflow happens
> during a kernel critical section
> where interrupts are off.

Actually oprofile uses the NMI to avoid that particular problem.
It still has limits, e.g. no profiling of SMM sections.

> There is nothing SW can do about all of this.

Yes profiling on a out of order machine is hard.

> Furthermore, PEBS can record samples while
> in kernel critical sections. 

Again with oprofile that works too without PEBS.

-Andi
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