Boot tracer
The purpose of this tracer is to helps developers to optimize boot times: it records the timings of the initcalls. Its aim is to be parsed by the scripts/bootgraph.pl tool to produce graphics about boot inefficiencies, giving a visual representation of the delays during initcalls. Users need to enable CONFIG_BOOT_TRACER, boot with the "initcall_debug" and "printk.time=1" parameters, and run "dmesg | perl scripts/bootgraph.pl > output.svg" to generate the final data.
start from the 2.6.28