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    Add a script to visualize the kernel boot process / time · f9b9796a
    Arjan van de Ven authored
    When optimizing the kernel boot time, it's very valuable to visualize
    what is going on at which time. In addition, with some of the initializing
    going asynchronous soon, it's valuable to track/print which worker thread
    is executing the initialization.
    
    This patch adds a script to turn a dmesg into a SVG graph (that can be
    shown with tools such as InkScape, Gimp or Firefox) and a small change
    to the initcall code to print the PID of the thread calling the initcall
    (so that the script can work out the parallelism).
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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