From 52d85d763086594f139bf7d3a5641abeb91d9f57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Juri Lelli Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:03:18 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ftrace: Fix stddev calculation in function profiler MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit When FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER is enabled, ftrace can profile kernel functions and print basic statistics about them. Unfortunately, running stddev calculation is wrong. This patch corrects it implementing Welford’s method: s^2 = 1 / (n * (n-1)) * (n * \Sum (x_i)^2 - (\Sum x_i)^2) . Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371031398-24048-1-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- Reading git-format-patch failed