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Author SHA1 Message Date
Hyeonjun Lim
817eecbf82 doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
The ./kernel/ksysfs.c defines 'profiling' w/o 'profile' like
"KERNEL_ATTR_RW(profiling)".  We need to synchronize the content between ksys.c
source and kernel doc.

Signed-off-by: Hyeonjun Lim <hjoon0510@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-12-03 11:11:51 +01:00
Dave Hansen
22b8ce9470 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>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00