Re: Patch to eliminate idle loop from kernel profiling output.

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2000 - 18:10:22 EST

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On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Larry Woodman wrote:

>This little patch stops idle loop from showing up in the Alpha kernel
>profiler output.

The fact it shows it's intentional. See also the IA32 implementation and
the /proc/irq/prof_cpu_mask for details.

btw, a better fix would been to skip the profiling if current->pid is 0.

Andrea

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