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Any tips on profiling windows device drivers? I've tried xperf, but it doesn't allow you (or I haven't seen how) to change the frequency of the sampling, and ca
by ekr 11y ago
Any tips on profiling windows device drivers? I've tried xperf, but it doesn't allow you (or I haven't seen how) to change the frequency of the sampling, and can only do a system-wide profile.
I've also tried vtune, but it doesn't support stack-tracing (or things like lbr) for system-wide profiling, and it doesn't have a specific option for sampling drivers. You can attach to the System process, but then you're missing a lot of the your driver code, that runs in other contexts.
I kept thinking about implementing my own sampling profiler (using LBR for stack-tracing, and hardware performance events, like linux's oprofile/ freebsd's hwpmc), but I can't see how I could only profile my driver, and not the whole system, without hooking the Windows scheduler. I guess I will just profile the whole system and check if the program counter is inside my module.