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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-06-15 03:02:23 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-06-15 03:02:23 -0700 |
| commit | 9cbc1cb8cd46ce1f7645b9de249b2ce8460129bb (patch) | |
| tree | 8d104ec2a459346b99413b0b77421ca7b9936c1a /Documentation/trace/power.txt | |
| parent | ca44d6e60f9de26281fda203f58b570e1748c015 (diff) | |
| parent | 45e3e1935e2857c54783291107d33323b3ef33c8 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
net/core/drop_monitor.c
net/core/net-traces.c
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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/power.txt b/Documentation/trace/power.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd805e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/trace/power.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +The power tracer collects detailed information about C-state and P-state +transitions, instead of just looking at the high-level "average" +information. + +There is a helper script found in scrips/tracing/power.pl in the kernel +sources which can be used to parse this information and create a +Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) picture from the trace data. + +To use this tracer: + + echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + echo power > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer + echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + sleep 1 + echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace | \ + perl scripts/tracing/power.pl > out.sv |
