On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:03:21 -0700 "Russ Dill" <russ.dill@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted text > > > 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)
> >
> > Actually the prof_shift isn't in units of bytes: it is in units of
> > sizeof(unsigned long).
>
>
> I thought we just went through this?
Just. I seem to recall discussing this with someone a number of weeks ago.
Sorry, but my memory gets flushed a lot more frequently than that.
quoted text > extern char _text[], _stext[], _etext[];
> [...]
> prof_len = (_etext - _stext) >> prof_shift;
> prof_buffer = alloc_bootmem(prof_len*sizeof(atomic_t));
>
ok, you're right.
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