Re: Oprofile : need to adjust PC by 16 bytes

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Nov 14 2008 - 12:41:44 EST


> >And no, blindly subtracting 16 from IP is not a fix.
>
> Who mentioned a fix ? I am only giving more fuel to Intel guys so they
> hopefully can give us a working oprofile.

You would need to implement PEBS support to avoid that problem. But it's a big
task. perfmon2 implements it already.

-Andi
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