This is mostly a note to myself. The easy way to build a profilable image for Android (e.g. Gingerbread). I am applying the patch from the bottom to build with framepointers. I am build an unstripped image, I use the environment script and then launch the emulator. With the default engineering mode opcontrol and oprofiled will be installed only the events will be missing from the image.

$ make TARGET_STRIP_MODULE=false
$ . ./build/envsetup.sh
$ help
$ setpaths
$ ./out/host/linux-x86/bin/emulator

diff --git a/core/combo/TARGET_linux-arm.mk b/core/combo/TARGET_linux-arm.mk
index ae1997c..66e55fd 100644
--- a/core/combo/TARGET_linux-arm.mk
+++ b/core/combo/TARGET_linux-arm.mk
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ TARGET_LD := $(TARGET_TOOLS_PREFIX)ld$(HOST_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX)
 TARGET_NO_UNDEFINED_LDFLAGS := -Wl,--no-undefined
 
 TARGET_arm_CFLAGS :=    -O2 
-                        -fomit-frame-pointer 
+                        -fno-omit-frame-pointer 
                         -fstrict-aliasing    
                         -funswitch-loops     
                         -finline-limit=300
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ TARGET_arm_CFLAGS :=    -O2 
 ifeq ($(ARCH_ARM_HAVE_THUMB_SUPPORT),true)
 TARGET_thumb_CFLAGS :=  -mthumb 
                         -Os 
-                        -fomit-frame-pointer 
+                        -fno-omit-frame-pointer 
                         -fno-strict-aliasing 
                         -finline-limit=64
 else