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authorEduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>2008-08-10 20:14:03 +0300
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>2008-12-29 15:34:01 +0200
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kmemtrace: Core implementation.
kmemtrace provides tracing for slab allocator functions, such as kmalloc, kfree, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_free etc.. Collected data is then fed to the userspace application in order to analyse allocation hotspots, internal fragmentation and so on, making it possible to see how well an allocator performs, as well as debug and profile kernel code. Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ parameter is applicable:
ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled.
ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
+ KMEMTRACE kmemtrace is enabled.
LIBATA Libata driver is enabled
LP Printer support is enabled.
LOOP Loopback device support is enabled.
@@ -1018,6 +1019,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
use the HighMem zone if it exists, and the Normal
zone if it does not.
+ kmemtrace.enable= [KNL,KMEMTRACE] Format: { yes | no }
+ Controls whether kmemtrace is enabled
+ at boot-time.
+
+ kmemtrace.subbufs=n [KNL,KMEMTRACE] Overrides the number of
+ subbufs kmemtrace's relay channel has. Set this
+ higher than default (KMEMTRACE_N_SUBBUFS in code) if
+ you experience buffer overruns.
+
movablecore=nn[KMG] [KNL,X86-32,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] This parameter
is similar to kernelcore except it specifies the
amount of memory used for migratable allocations.