Be more explicit on what the step/bucket size accomplishes.
Signed-off-by: Russ Dill <[email protected]>
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Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 ++++-
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index eb24799..3c6fd27 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1427,7 +1427,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
Format: [schedule,]<number>
Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points.
Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for
- statistical time based profiling.
+ statistical time based profiling. A value of
+ 2 will provide a granularity of 4 bytes, a
+ value of 3 will provide a granularity of 8
+ bytes and so on.
Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs)
processor.max_cstate= [HW,ACPI]
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