Recently I needed to see when my threads were executing and in which processor, and it took me a couple of days to get this done. Here is the best solution I’ve found. First of all, we need the kernel to be compiled with some debug features enabled http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt We’ll need to mount the …
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