From: Mel Gorman Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:02:48 +0000 (-0700) Subject: tracing, documentation: add a document describing how to do some performance analysis... X-Git-Tag: v2.6.32-rc1~524 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bb72222086260695d71afe60fa105649c1ea9463;p=pandora-kernel.git tracing, documentation: add a document describing how to do some performance analysis with tracepoints The documentation for ftrace, events and tracepoints is pretty extensive. Similarly, the perf PCL tools help files --help are there and the code simple enough to figure out what much of the switches mean. However, pulling the discrete bits and pieces together and translating that into "how do I solve a problem" requires a fair amount of imagination. This patch adds a simple document intended to get someone started on the Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Rik van Riel Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Larry Woodman Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Li Ming Chun Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed