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| author | Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> | 2009-06-29 15:55:10 +0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-29 10:22:10 +0200 |
| commit | 238a24f626628cb16a3015f332d649f08246ca89 (patch) | |
| tree | f4454dd15f7b86c0ca0869230f6e389901147b70 /kernel | |
| parent | 82d5308127c3e3404ffbf41e503853c68660b18b (diff) | |
| download | linux-238a24f626628cb16a3015f332d649f08246ca89.tar.gz | |
tracing/fastboot: Document the need of initcall_debug
To use boot tracer, one should pass initcall_debug as well as ftrace=initcall to the command line. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <4A48735E.9050002@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/Kconfig | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index 1551f47e7669..019f380fd764 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -226,13 +226,13 @@ config BOOT_TRACER the timings of the initcalls and traces key events and the identity of tasks that can cause boot delays, such as context-switches. - Its aim is to be parsed by the /scripts/bootgraph.pl tool to + Its aim is to be parsed by the scripts/bootgraph.pl tool to produce pretty graphics about boot inefficiencies, giving a visual representation of the delays during initcalls - but the raw /debug/tracing/trace text output is readable too. - You must pass in ftrace=initcall to the kernel command line - to enable this on bootup. + You must pass in initcall_debug and ftrace=initcall to the kernel + command line to enable this on bootup. config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING bool |