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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-06-17 10:52:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-06-17 10:52:33 +0000 |
| commit | 2c3307fb903f427be3d021c5780b75cac9af2ce8 (patch) | |
| tree | 65cf431f40b7481d81ae2dfce9576342686448f7 /upstream/debian-unstable/man5/proc_profile.5 | |
| parent | Releasing progress-linux version 4.22.0-1~progress7.99u1. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 4.23.0.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/upstream/debian-unstable/man5/proc_profile.5 b/upstream/debian-unstable/man5/proc_profile.5 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..31882b7d --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/debian-unstable/man5/proc_profile.5 @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@yggdrasil.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2002-2008, 2017, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" Copyright (C) 2023, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later +.\" +.TH proc_profile 5 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages 6.8" +.SH NAME +/proc/profile \- kernel profiling +.SH DESCRIPTION +.TP +.IR /proc/profile " (since Linux 2.4)" +This file is present only if the kernel was booted with the +.I profile=1 +command-line option. +It exposes kernel profiling information in a binary format for use by +.BR readprofile (1). +Writing (e.g., an empty string) to this file resets the profiling counters; +on some architectures, +writing a binary integer "profiling multiplier" of size +.I sizeof(int) +sets the profiling interrupt frequency. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR proc (5) |