From 22b8ce94708f7cdf0b04965c6f7443dfd374c35c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Hansen Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:01:46 -0700 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/profile.h | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/profile.h b/include/linux/profile.h index 7e7087239af..570045053ce 100644 --- a/include/linux/profile.h +++ b/include/linux/profile.h @@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ enum profile_type { extern int prof_on __read_mostly; /* init basic kernel profiler */ -void __init profile_init(void); +int profile_init(void); +int profile_setup(char *str); +int create_proc_profile(void); void profile_tick(int type); /* @@ -84,9 +86,9 @@ struct pt_regs; #define prof_on 0 -static inline void profile_init(void) +static inline int profile_init(void) { - return; + return 0; } static inline void profile_tick(int type) -- cgit v1.2.3