[Buildroot] OT: Using oprofile

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Thu Dec 1 05:38:14 UTC 2011


Hi Felipe

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 06:33:12PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Will Wagner <will_wagner at carallon.com> wrote:
> > I know this is slightly off topic, but I assume some buildroot users must be
> > doing this...
> >
> > I want to use oprofile on my target, which I have the basics working (using
> > buildroot master). However I am having two problems which I am not sure how
> > to work around:
> >
> > - when trying to profile with vmlinux it fails saying objdump is not
> > installed (which it is not). It says I can pass in the kernel range, I'm
> > just not sure how to get it.
> 
> You can read the soucecode, objdump is a shell script. Check
> get_image_range() and run the objdump commands on your machine.

You probably meant to say "opcontrol is a shell script".

baruch

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