Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934106AbXJQF5D (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:57:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764237AbXJQF4Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:56:16 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.183]:60072 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933217AbXJQF4O (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:56:14 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:to:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=o2j4x0VHtxyx3eRQcXu8c3ixP6Vn5faC8FB36dO8ClJlQAS37i67cl2FMz8aPT2GFlkv/DL+QcRh2fLfNhSGTKT+cLov4GWDFiYMfg3/Ycc5KYdV98Zfx620XuKtGppTUpDbjVq8Ic3g1uhhQ9sl192ltK8NX7OnRWL9hRhiykU= Subject: [PATCH fixed] Better document profile= To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:55:32 -0700 Message-Id: <1192600532.25941.3.camel@russ-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Russ Dill Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1203 Lines: 33 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/