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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/cpu changes for v2.6.34
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:24:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B8C3EBA.9050407@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1267472522.10871.14.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>

On 03/01/2010 11:42 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> As Frederic has said you can use 'ftrace=function_graph' on the kernel
> command line. It will be initialized in early_initcall (which I believe
> is before CPUs are set up. Then add a tracing_off() after the trouble
> code. You can make the trace buffers bigger with the kernel command
> line:
> 
> 	trace_buf_size=10000000
> 
> The above will make the trace buffer 10Meg per CPU. Unlike the
> "buffer_size_kb" file, this number is in bytes, even though it will
> round to the nearest page. (I probably should make this into kb, and
> rename it to trace_buf_size_kb, and deprecate trace_buf_size).
> 

Memory sizes specified on the kernel command line should generally be in
units of bytes, but accepting suffixes.

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-01 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-27 15:09 [GIT PULL] x86/cpu changes for v2.6.34 Ingo Molnar
2010-02-27 17:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-02-27 20:03   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-28 20:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-02-28 20:45   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-01  8:00     ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-01 13:17       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-01 16:47         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-03-01 19:42           ` Steven Rostedt
2010-03-01 22:23             ` Steven Rostedt
2010-03-01 22:24             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-03-01 19:29         ` Steven Rostedt

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