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Apart from OProfile, what tools do you recommend that I can use to profile my linux kernel while booting up?
I use kexec in Ubuntu server 9.04. OProfile doesn’t seem to do the desired work for me, or at least I don’t seem to be able to run it.
Any recomendation about a tool would be helpful, and if you know of a tool that can be used with kexec then that would be even better.
Many thanks
Other tools that can be used to profile the kernel include:
Also see here for general information regarding profiling in Linux.
The boot process can be profiled using: