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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-01 15:45:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-01 15:45:27 -0700
commitb23c4771ff62de8ca9b5e4a2d64491b2fb6f8f69 (patch)
tree3ff6b2bdfec161fbc383bba06bab6329e81b02f7 /Documentation/trace
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parente35b5a4c494a75a683ddf4901a43e0a128d5bfe3 (diff)
Merge tag 'docs-5.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another massive set from Mauro toward the completion of the RST conversion. I *really* hope we are getting close to the end of this. Meanwhile, those patches reach pretty far afield to update document references around the tree; there should be no actual code changes there. There will be, alas, more of the usual trivial merge conflicts. Beyond that we have more translations, improvements to the sphinx scripting, a number of additions to the sysctl documentation, and lots of fixes" * tag 'docs-5.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (130 commits) Documentation: fixes to the maintainer-entry-profile template zswap: docs/vm: Fix typo accept_threshold_percent in zswap.rst tracing: Fix events.rst section numbering docs: acpi: fix old http link and improve document format docs: filesystems: add info about efivars content Documentation: LSM: Correct the basic LSM description mailmap: change email for Ricardo Ribalda docs: sysctl/kernel: document unaligned controls Documentation: admin-guide: update bug-hunting.rst docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max nvdimm: fixes to maintainter-entry-profile Documentation/features: Correct RISC-V kprobes support entry Documentation/features: Refresh the arch support status files Revert "docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max" docs: move locking-specific documents to locking/ docs: move digsig docs to the security book docs: move the kref doc into the core-api book docs: add IRQ documentation at the core-api book docs: debugging-via-ohci1394.txt: add it to the core-api book docs: fix references for ipmi.rst file ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-ect.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/events.rst28
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-ect.rst b/Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-ect.rst
index ecc1e57012ef..a93e52abcf46 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-ect.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/coresight/coresight-ect.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
=============================================
CoreSight Embedded Cross Trigger (CTI & CTM).
=============================================
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events.rst b/Documentation/trace/events.rst
index 4a2ebe0bd19b..f792b1959a33 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/events.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/events.rst
@@ -527,8 +527,8 @@ The following commands are supported:
See Documentation/trace/histogram.rst for details and examples.
-6.3 In-kernel trace event API
------------------------------
+7. In-kernel trace event API
+============================
In most cases, the command-line interface to trace events is more than
sufficient. Sometimes, however, applications might find the need for
@@ -560,8 +560,8 @@ following:
- tracing synthetic events from in-kernel code
- the low-level "dynevent_cmd" API
-6.3.1 Dyamically creating synthetic event definitions
------------------------------------------------------
+7.1 Dyamically creating synthetic event definitions
+---------------------------------------------------
There are a couple ways to create a new synthetic event from a kernel
module or other kernel code.
@@ -666,8 +666,8 @@ registered by calling the synth_event_gen_cmd_end() function::
At this point, the event object is ready to be used for tracing new
events.
-6.3.3 Tracing synthetic events from in-kernel code
---------------------------------------------------
+7.2 Tracing synthetic events from in-kernel code
+------------------------------------------------
To trace a synthetic event, there are several options. The first
option is to trace the event in one call, using synth_event_trace()
@@ -678,8 +678,8 @@ synth_event_trace_start() and synth_event_trace_end() along with
synth_event_add_next_val() or synth_event_add_val() to add the values
piecewise.
-6.3.3.1 Tracing a synthetic event all at once
----------------------------------------------
+7.2.1 Tracing a synthetic event all at once
+-------------------------------------------
To trace a synthetic event all at once, the synth_event_trace() or
synth_event_trace_array() functions can be used.
@@ -780,8 +780,8 @@ remove the event::
ret = synth_event_delete("schedtest");
-6.3.3.1 Tracing a synthetic event piecewise
--------------------------------------------
+7.2.2 Tracing a synthetic event piecewise
+-----------------------------------------
To trace a synthetic using the piecewise method described above, the
synth_event_trace_start() function is used to 'open' the synthetic
@@ -864,8 +864,8 @@ Note that synth_event_trace_end() must be called at the end regardless
of whether any of the add calls failed (say due to a bad field name
being passed in).
-6.3.4 Dyamically creating kprobe and kretprobe event definitions
-----------------------------------------------------------------
+7.3 Dyamically creating kprobe and kretprobe event definitions
+--------------------------------------------------------------
To create a kprobe or kretprobe trace event from kernel code, the
kprobe_event_gen_cmd_start() or kretprobe_event_gen_cmd_start()
@@ -941,8 +941,8 @@ used to give the kprobe event file back and delete the event::
ret = kprobe_event_delete("gen_kprobe_test");
-6.3.4 The "dynevent_cmd" low-level API
---------------------------------------
+7.4 The "dynevent_cmd" low-level API
+------------------------------------
Both the in-kernel synthetic event and kprobe interfaces are built on
top of a lower-level "dynevent_cmd" interface. This interface is