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author | Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2008-10-16 01:01:46 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-10-16 14:21:31 -0400 |
commit | 22b8ce94708f7cdf0b04965c6f7443dfd374c35c (patch) | |
tree | e2d5b60e9b881cf251185b23c3853c8b3e52d42a /Documentation/devices.txt | |
parent | 0c2d64fb6cae9aae480f6a46cfe79f8d7d48b59f (diff) |
profiling: dynamically enable readprofile at runtime
Way too often, I have a machine that exhibits some kind of crappy
behavior. The CPU looks wedged in the kernel or it is spending way too
much system time and I wonder what is responsible.
I try to run readprofile. But, of course, Ubuntu doesn't enable it by
default. Dang!
The reason we boot-time enable it is that it takes a big bufffer that we
generally can only bootmem alloc. But, does it hurt to at least try and
runtime-alloc it?
To use:
echo 2 > /sys/kernel/profile
Then run readprofile like normal.
This should fix the compile issue with allmodconfig. I've compile-tested
on a bunch more configs now including a few more architectures.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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