From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264450AbTDPQda (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:33:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264449AbTDPQd3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:33:29 -0400 Received: from wohnheim.fh-wedel.de ([195.37.86.122]:41367 "EHLO wohnheim.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264482AbTDPQdH (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:33:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:44:40 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Paul Larson Cc: ltp-coverage@lists.sourceforge.net, lse-tech , lkml Subject: Re: [Ltp-coverage] 2.5.67-gcov and 2.4.20-gcov Message-ID: <20030416164440.GB2305@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <1050502803.8637.1094.camel@plars> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1050502803.8637.1094.camel@plars> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 16 April 2003 09:20:02 -0500, Paul Larson wrote: > > The Linux Kernel GCOV patch has a new home. It will now be available > from the Linux Test Project site at: http://ltp.sourceforge.net. > > This release updates the gcov-kernel patches and utilities for 2.5.67 > and 2.4.20 kernels, and includes some minor bugfixes. > > The Linux Kernel GCOV patch allows utilization of the gcov tool > against a running kernel. This is different from most other profiling > methods because it can easily tell you things like: which lines of code > are executed, how many times they are executed, and how often different > branches are taken. Excuse me for being lazy. Does this already cover ppc? I submitted a patch over some other channels some time ago. Jörn -- Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra