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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
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debugfs-pktcdvd
procfs-diskstats Enhanced partition statistics: documentation update 2008-02-08 12:42:11 +01:00
sysfs-block block: Data integrity infrastructure documentation 2008-07-03 13:21:13 +02:00
sysfs-bus-css [S390] cio: Introduce modalias for css bus. 2008-07-14 10:02:05 +02:00
sysfs-bus-pci PCI: Expose PCI VPD through sysfs 2008-04-20 21:47:07 -07:00
sysfs-bus-usb
sysfs-class
sysfs-class-bdi fuse: fix bdi naming conflict 2008-05-24 09:56:07 -07:00
sysfs-class-pktcdvd
sysfs-class-regulator regulator: Export regulator name via sysfs 2008-10-13 21:51:53 +01:00
sysfs-dev sysfs: add /sys/dev/{char,block} to lookup sysfs path by major:minor 2008-07-21 21:54:40 -07:00
sysfs-devices
sysfs-devices-memory memory-hotplug: add sysfs removable attribute for hotplug memory remove 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
sysfs-firmware-acpi ACPI: Enhance /sys/firmware/interrupts to allow enable/disable/clear from user-space 2008-07-16 23:27:04 +02:00
sysfs-firmware-memmap sysfs: add /sys/firmware/memmap 2008-07-08 17:55:41 +02:00
sysfs-firmware-sgi_uv sysfs: document files in /sys/firmware/sgi_uv/ 2008-09-02 19:21:40 -07:00
sysfs-gpio Documentation/ABI: /sys/class/gpio 2008-09-13 14:41:52 -07:00
sysfs-ibft Firmware: add iSCSI iBFT Support 2008-04-19 19:10:28 -07:00
sysfs-kernel-mm mm: create /sys/kernel/mm 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages hugetlb: new sysfs interface 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
sysfs-kernel-uids Documentation: create new scheduler/ subdirectory 2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
sysfs-ocfs2 ocfs2: Document /sys/fs/ocfs2 2008-04-18 08:56:07 -07:00
sysfs-power
sysfs-profiling profiling: dynamically enable readprofile at runtime 2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00