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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-08-15 20:03:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-08-15 23:19:15 +0200 |
| commit | f884fd03ff488ced4ca55c63db152deb865dcc30 (patch) | |
| tree | c9e3f2ad1cd024f9f4b7d1b4f2f8faba85e3251a /man5/proc_profile.5 | |
| parent | b41a396142cfcc51abc3d868dec71627406c9cf0 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-f884fd03ff488ced4ca55c63db152deb865dcc30.tar.gz | |
proc.5, proc_profile.5: Split /proc/profile from proc(5)
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man5/proc_profile.5 b/man5/proc_profile.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..994a4d8883 --- /dev/null +++ b/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 (date) "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) |