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authorYunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>2015-08-04 12:17:53 -0700
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Import the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as OPNFV kvm base. It's from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git linux-4.1.y-rt and the base is: commit 0917f823c59692d751951bf5ea699a2d1e2f26a2 Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Date: Sat Jul 25 12:13:34 2015 +0200 Prepare v4.1.3-rt3 Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> We lose all the git history this way and it's not good. We should apply another opnfv project repo in future. Change-Id: I87543d81c9df70d99c5001fbdf646b202c19f423 Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
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+These instructions are deliberately very basic. If you want something clever,
+go read the real docs ;-) Please don't add more stuff, but feel free to
+correct my mistakes ;-) (mbligh@aracnet.com)
+Thanks to John Levon, Dave Hansen, et al. for help writing this.
+
+<test> is the thing you're trying to measure.
+Make sure you have the correct System.map / vmlinux referenced!
+
+It is probably easiest to use "make install" for linux and hack
+/sbin/installkernel to copy vmlinux to /boot, in addition to vmlinuz,
+config, System.map, which are usually installed by default.
+
+Readprofile
+-----------
+A recent readprofile command is needed for 2.6, such as found in util-linux
+2.12a, which can be downloaded from:
+
+http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/
+
+Most distributions will ship it already.
+
+Add "profile=2" to the kernel command line.
+
+clear readprofile -r
+ <test>
+dump output readprofile -m /boot/System.map > captured_profile
+
+Oprofile
+--------
+
+Get the source (see Changes for required version) from
+http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/ and add "idle=poll" to the kernel command
+line.
+
+Configure with CONFIG_PROFILING=y and CONFIG_OPROFILE=y & reboot on new kernel
+
+./configure --with-kernel-support
+make install
+
+For superior results, be sure to enable the local APIC. If opreport sees
+a 0Hz CPU, APIC was not on. Be aware that idle=poll may mean a performance
+penalty.
+
+One time setup:
+ opcontrol --setup --vmlinux=/boot/vmlinux
+
+clear opcontrol --reset
+start opcontrol --start
+ <test>
+stop opcontrol --stop
+dump output opreport > output_file
+
+To only report on the kernel, run opreport -l /boot/vmlinux > output_file
+
+A reset is needed to clear old statistics, which survive a reboot.
+