Commit 238a24f6 authored by Li Zefan's avatar Li Zefan Committed by Ingo Molnar

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: default avatarLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A48735E.9050002@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 82d53081
...@@ -226,13 +226,13 @@ config BOOT_TRACER ...@@ -226,13 +226,13 @@ config BOOT_TRACER
the timings of the initcalls and traces key events and the identity the timings of the initcalls and traces key events and the identity
of tasks that can cause boot delays, such as context-switches. 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 produce pretty graphics about boot inefficiencies, giving a visual
representation of the delays during initcalls - but the raw representation of the delays during initcalls - but the raw
/debug/tracing/trace text output is readable too. /debug/tracing/trace text output is readable too.
You must pass in ftrace=initcall to the kernel command line You must pass in initcall_debug and ftrace=initcall to the kernel
to enable this on bootup. command line to enable this on bootup.
config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
bool bool
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