[PATCH] oprofile: report anonymous region samples

The below patch passes samples from anonymous regions to userspace instead
of just dropping them.  This provides the support needed for reporting
anonymous-region code samples (today: basic accumulated results; later:
Java and other dynamically compiled code).

As this changes the format, an upgrade to the just-released 0.9 release of
the userspace tools is required.

This patch is based upon an earlier one by Will Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/basic_profiling.txt b/Documentation/basic_profiling.txt
index 65e3dc2d4437..8764e9f70821 100644
--- a/Documentation/basic_profiling.txt
+++ b/Documentation/basic_profiling.txt
@@ -27,9 +27,13 @@ dump output	readprofile -m /boot/System.map > captured_profile
 
 Oprofile
 --------
-Get the source (I use 0.8) from http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/
-and add "idle=poll" to the kernel command line
+
+Get the source (see Changes for required version) from
+http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/ and add "idle=poll" to the kernel command
+line.
+
 Configure with CONFIG_PROFILING=y and CONFIG_OPROFILE=y & reboot on new kernel
+
 ./configure --with-kernel-support
 make install
 
@@ -46,7 +50,7 @@ start		opcontrol --start
 stop            opcontrol --stop
 dump output     opreport >  output_file
 
-To only report on the kernel, run opreport /boot/vmlinux > output_file
+To only report on the kernel, run opreport -l /boot/vmlinux > output_file
 
 A reset is needed to clear old statistics, which survive a reboot.