Iprobe is an alpha-only system profiling suite which I'm porting from
Linux/alpha to FreeBSD.
Iprobe works by using the hardware profiling support built into
alpha cpus. In a nutshell, what Iprobe does is to setup the alpha
performance counters to sample the pc at a fairly high rate & dumps
those pc samples out to user space. Then some code runs to map the
sampled PCs to functions. You get a bit more than that (like the PSL
word, so you can tell if you're in the kernel or userland, what the
ipl is, etc).
work in progress and has never booted a real machine. Initial
development and testing was done using SimOS (see
http://simos.stanford.edu for details). On the SimOS simulator, this
port successfully reaches single-user mode and has been tested with
loads as high as one copy of /bin/ls :-).
Obtained from: partly from NetBSD/alpha
