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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-24 04:52:22 +0000 |
| commit | 3d08cd331c1adcf0d917392f7e527b3f00511748 (patch) | |
| tree | 312f0d1e1632f48862f044b8bb87e602dcffb5f9 /man/man5/proc_profile.5 | |
| parent | Adding debian version 6.7-2. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 6.8.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man/man5/proc_profile.5 b/man/man5/proc_profile.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..44adb24 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/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 (unreleased)" +.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) |