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Juri Lelli committed 52d85d76308
ftrace: Fix stddev calculation in function profiler When FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER is enabled, ftrace can profile kernel functions and print basic statistics about them. Unfortunately, running stddev calculation is wrong. This patch corrects it implementing Welford’s method: s^2 = 1 / (n * (n-1)) * (n * \Sum (x_i)^2 - (\Sum x_i)^2) . Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371031398-24048-1-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>