From 22b8ce94708f7cdf0b04965c6f7443dfd374c35c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Hansen Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:01:46 -0700 Subject: profiling: dynamically enable readprofile at runtime Way too often, I have a machine that exhibits some kind of crappy behavior. The CPU looks wedged in the kernel or it is spending way too much system time and I wonder what is responsible. I try to run readprofile. But, of course, Ubuntu doesn't enable it by default. Dang! The reason we boot-time enable it is that it takes a big bufffer that we generally can only bootmem alloc. But, does it hurt to at least try and runtime-alloc it? To use: echo 2 > /sys/kernel/profile Then run readprofile like normal. This should fix the compile issue with allmodconfig. I've compile-tested on a bunch more configs now including a few more architectures. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/ksysfs.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/ksysfs.c') diff --git a/kernel/ksysfs.c b/kernel/ksysfs.c index e53bc30e9ba5..08dd8ed86c77 100644 --- a/kernel/ksysfs.c +++ b/kernel/ksysfs.c @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #define KERNEL_ATTR_RO(_name) \ @@ -53,6 +54,37 @@ static ssize_t uevent_helper_store(struct kobject *kobj, KERNEL_ATTR_RW(uevent_helper); #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_PROFILING +static ssize_t profiling_show(struct kobject *kobj, + struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf) +{ + return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", prof_on); +} +static ssize_t profiling_store(struct kobject *kobj, + struct kobj_attribute *attr, + const char *buf, size_t count) +{ + int ret; + + if (prof_on) + return -EEXIST; + /* + * This eventually calls into get_option() which + * has a ton of callers and is not const. It is + * easiest to cast it away here. + */ + profile_setup((char *)buf); + ret = profile_init(); + if (ret) + return ret; + ret = create_proc_profile(); + if (ret) + return ret; + return count; +} +KERNEL_ATTR_RW(profiling); +#endif + #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC static ssize_t kexec_loaded_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf) @@ -109,6 +141,9 @@ static struct attribute * kernel_attrs[] = { &uevent_seqnum_attr.attr, &uevent_helper_attr.attr, #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_PROFILING + &profiling_attr.attr, +#endif #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC &kexec_loaded_attr.attr, &kexec_crash_loaded_attr.attr, -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b