Oprofile
 --------
-Get the source (I use 0.8) from http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/
-and add "idle=poll" to the kernel command line
+
+Get the source (see Changes for required version) from
+http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/ and add "idle=poll" to the kernel command
+line.
+
 Configure with CONFIG_PROFILING=y and CONFIG_OPROFILE=y & reboot on new kernel
+
 ./configure --with-kernel-support
 make install
 
 stop           opcontrol --stop
 dump output    opreport >  output_file
 
-To only report on the kernel, run opreport /boot/vmlinux > output_file
+To only report on the kernel, run opreport -l /boot/vmlinux > output_file
 
 A reset is needed to clear old statistics, which survive a reboot.
 
 
  */
 static unsigned long get_exec_dcookie(struct mm_struct * mm)
 {
-       unsigned long cookie = 0;
+       unsigned long cookie = NO_COOKIE;
        struct vm_area_struct * vma;
  
        if (!mm)
  */
 static unsigned long lookup_dcookie(struct mm_struct * mm, unsigned long addr, off_t * offset)
 {
-       unsigned long cookie = 0;
+       unsigned long cookie = NO_COOKIE;
        struct vm_area_struct * vma;
 
        for (vma = find_vma(mm, addr); vma; vma = vma->vm_next) {
  
-               if (!vma->vm_file)
-                       continue;
-
                if (addr < vma->vm_start || addr >= vma->vm_end)
                        continue;
 
-               cookie = fast_get_dcookie(vma->vm_file->f_dentry,
-                       vma->vm_file->f_vfsmnt);
-               *offset = (vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT) + addr - vma->vm_start; 
+               if (vma->vm_file) {
+                       cookie = fast_get_dcookie(vma->vm_file->f_dentry,
+                               vma->vm_file->f_vfsmnt);
+                       *offset = (vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT) + addr -
+                               vma->vm_start;
+               } else {
+                       /* must be an anonymous map */
+                       *offset = addr;
+               }
+
                break;
        }
 
+       if (!vma)
+               cookie = INVALID_COOKIE;
+
        return cookie;
 }
 
 
-static unsigned long last_cookie = ~0UL;
+static unsigned long last_cookie = INVALID_COOKIE;
  
 static void add_cpu_switch(int i)
 {
        add_event_entry(ESCAPE_CODE);
        add_event_entry(CPU_SWITCH_CODE);
        add_event_entry(i);
-       last_cookie = ~0UL;
+       last_cookie = INVALID_COOKIE;
 }
 
 static void add_kernel_ctx_switch(unsigned int in_kernel)
  
        cookie = lookup_dcookie(mm, s->eip, &offset);
  
-       if (!cookie) {
+       if (cookie == INVALID_COOKIE) {
                atomic_inc(&oprofile_stats.sample_lost_no_mapping);
                return 0;
        }