On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 15:52 +0000, Pawel Moll wrote: > On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 13:00 +0000, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 04:51:56PM +0000, Pawel Moll wrote: > > > Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 +++++++++ > > > kernel/events/core.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+) > > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt > > > index 4c81a86..8ead8d8 100644 > > > --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt > > > +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt > > > > > @@ -2763,6 +2764,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. > > > allocator. This parameter is primarily for debugging > > > and performance comparison. > > > > > > + perf_use_local_clock > > > + [PERF] > > > + Use local_clock() as a source for perf timestamps > > > + generation. This was be the default behaviour and > > > + this parameter can be used to maintain backward > > > + compatibility or on older hardware with expensive > > > + monotonic clock source. > > > + > > > pf. [PARIDE] > > > See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. > > > > So I'm always terminally confused on the naming of kernel parameters, > > sometimes things are modules (even when they're not actually =m capable) > > and get a module::foo naming or so and sometimes they're not. > > I guess you mean module.foo? > > > So we want to use the module naming thing or not? > > Honestly, I don't mind either way. For one thing ftrace doesn't bother > and just uses __setup() as well. There's one more thing to this - as far as I remember, the module name is actually derived from the compilation unit name (at some level of Kbuild). I may be wrong (will have to double check), but a module parameter defined in kernel/events/core.c may be called something like "core.parameter" ;-). Pawel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
