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diff --git a/man/10/kprof b/man/10/kprof new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4df39888 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/10/kprof @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +.TH KPROF 10.1 +.SH NAME +kprof \- display kernel profiling data +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B kprof +.I kernel +.I kpdata +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Kprof +presents the data accumulated by the kernel +profiling device, +.IR kprof (3) . +The symbol table is taken from the file +.IR kernel , +the executable file of the operating system kernel that +was profiled. +The data file +.I kpdata +is usually a copy of +.BR /dev/kpdata +from the device running the profiling kernel. +.PP +The symbol table +is read and correlated with the +profile data. +For each symbol, the time (in milliseconds) +spent executing between that symbol +and the next +is printed (in decreasing order), +together with the percentage of the total time. +.SH SOURCE +.B /utils/kprof +.SH SEE ALSO +.IR kprof (3) |
