Re: Does oprofile suffer from aliasing?

Grant Edwards <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.oprofile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2015-04-29, Michael Petlan <[email protected]> wrote:

> oprofile can operate basically in two different modes. The main approach
> is to use hardware PMU.
[...]
> In case PMU cannot be used (your CPU is not supported by oprofile OR
> your CPU doesn't have PMU support OR your kernel is too old OR you're
> using some virtualization without support of PMU etc), there's a
> fallback mode (TIMER). When the timer mode is used, the interrupts
> are generated by software and it works pretty much like you
> described.

Unfortuantely, I can't find any indication that my CPU (ARM926) has
any PMU support (regardless of kernel version).  So it looks like I'm
still getting nowhere.

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