From 238a24f626628cb16a3015f332d649f08246ca89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:55:10 +0800 Subject: 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 Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Steven Rostedt LKML-Reference: <4A48735E.9050002@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/trace/Kconfig | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3