Merge remote-tracking branch 'watchdog/master'

[karo-tx-linux.git] / Documentation / basic_profiling.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/basic_profiling.txt b/Documentation/basic_profiling.txt
index 65e3dc2d4437a460fa68d5b52c87d52e401e2825..8764e9f70821e4f894551f1fb1b98a881f3d3e9d 100644 (file)
--- 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.