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proc_profile(5) File Formats Manual proc_profile(5)

NAME

/proc/profile - kernel profiling

DESCRIPTION

/proc/profile (since Linux 2.4)
This file is present only if the kernel was booted with the profile=1 command-line option. It exposes kernel profiling information in a binary format for use by readprofile(1). Writing (e.g., an empty string) to this file resets the profiling counters; on some architectures, writing a binary integer "profiling multiplier" of size sizeof(int) sets the profiling interrupt frequency.

SEE ALSO

proc(5)

2023-08-15 Linux man-pages 6.7