NAME
tprof —
a sampling based profiler
SYNOPSIS
pseudo-device tprof
DESCRIPTION
Thetprof driver provides kernel services necessary for
tprof(8).
Specifically, it makes its backend driver collect profiling samples and provide them to the userland consumer.
The API/ABI is currently undocumented and will likely change in future without keeping compatibility.
On x86, the tprof_x86 module must be loaded in addition to the
tprof driver.
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
The tprof driver was written by
YAMAMOTO Takashi.
BUGS
There is no way to configure multiple backend drivers statically.