Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758665AbXJQFQ5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:16:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751218AbXJQFQt (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:16:49 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]:47577 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750996AbXJQFQs (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:16:48 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=XHi7VE+nSDkE4X6O9JcdDbmCYIcT6cvcpp5Bte/XQIjeJfqMtE9QXC2LqS8xT0kIYlcrh/NFyv6KkfQK4CYIQB1cH1kU4/+34TNjrxsLEEp3NbMdr39QyrXOQEYmvbqhHM01Fehgm0kUGNTBbVOpyO53uiUF0LCHZ2TEC6Kqfu4= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:16:47 -0700 From: "Russ Dill" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] Better document profile= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1199 Lines: 32 Be more explicit on what the step/bucket size accomplishes. Signed-off-by: Russ Dill --- 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,] Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. Param: - 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] -- 1.5.2.5 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/