Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook - Second Edition

How it works...

Following is an example. perf_example.c is a program modified from the perf_event_open man page to measure instruction count for a printf() call:

#include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <linux/perf_event.h> #include <asm/unistd.h> static long perf_event_open(struct perf_event_attr *hw_event, pid_t pid, int cpu, int group_fd, unsigned long flags) { int ret; ret = syscall(__NR_perf_event_open, hw_event, pid, cpu, group_fd, flags); return ret; } int main(int argc, char **argv) { struct perf_event_attr pe; long long count; int fd; memset(&pe, 0, sizeof(struct perf_event_attr)); pe.type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE; pe.size = sizeof(struct perf_event_attr); pe.config ...