From 3d08cd331c1adcf0d917392f7e527b3f00511748 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 06:52:22 +0200 Subject: Merging upstream version 6.8. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- man/man5/proc_profile.5 | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man/man5/proc_profile.5 (limited to 'man/man5/proc_profile.5') 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 +.\" Copyright (C) 2002-2008, 2017, Michael Kerrisk +.\" Copyright (C) 2023, Alejandro Colomar +.\" +.\" 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) -- cgit v1.2.3