Enabling OProfile in the OLPC kernels?

[Jim Gettys]

Thank you for your efforts!

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 16:39 -0400, William Cohen wrote:
> I have been successful in getting OProfile in timer mode to work on a OLPC Beta 
> 2 machine. Would it be worthwhile to build the OProfile module in the kernel 
> build? 

Yes.

> Developers might find it useful to get some system-wide sampling to find 
> out where the hot spots are in code. Are there reasons other than space 
> constraints that OProfile support is not included in the kernel?

Nope; it has been on our "we'd like to have" list of performance tools
for quite a while.
                                 - Jim

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