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From: John Levon <movement@marcelothewonderpenguin.com>
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 08:29:22PM +0100, Steffen Persvold wrote:

> Is it possible to use the kernel profiling functionality to do
> profiling on loadable modules ?

I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to extend the profiling buffer for
the module text regions ...

> If no, is there any other easy method ?

http://oprofile.sf.net

regards
john

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