On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 14:38 +0000, David Wragg wrote: > Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > if all you care is the number of context switches, you can use the > > following system tap script as well: > > > > http://www.fenrus.org/cstop.stp > > Thanks, something similar to that might well have solved my original > problem. > > (When I try the script, stap complains about the lack of the kernel > debuginfo package, which of course doesn't exist for my self-built > kernel. After hunting around on the web for 10 minutes, I'm still no > closer to resolving this. But I look forward to playing with > systemtap once I get past that problem.)
what worked for me is copying the "vmlinux" file to /boot as /boot/vmlinux-`uname -r` (strace the stap program to see what it tries to load) -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/