From f3f47a6768a29448866da4422b6f6bee485c947f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:49:58 -0800 Subject: tracing: add "power-tracer": C/P state tracer to help power optimization Impact: new "power-tracer" ftrace plugin This patch adds a C/P-state ftrace plugin that will generate detailed statistics about the C/P-states that are being used, so that we can look at detailed decisions that the C/P-state code is making, rather than the too high level "average" that we have today. An example way of using this is: mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug echo cstate > /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/trace/cstate.pl > out.svg Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/trace/Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/trace/Makefile') diff --git a/kernel/trace/Makefile b/kernel/trace/Makefile index cef4bcb4e822..acaa06553eca 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Makefile +++ b/kernel/trace/Makefile @@ -32,5 +32,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_BOOT_TRACER) += trace_boot.o obj-$(CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER) += trace_functions_return.o obj-$(CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING) += trace_branch.o obj-$(CONFIG_BTS_TRACER) += trace_bts.o +obj-$(CONFIG_POWER_TRACER) += trace_power.o libftrace-y := ftrace.o -- cgit v1.2.3