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Subject[tip:tracing/core] tracing: Add documentation for the power tracer
Commit-ID:  56c49951747f250d8398582509e02ae5ce1d36d1
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/56c49951747f250d8398582509e02ae5ce1d36d1
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
AuthorDate: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:51:19 -0400
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:51:42 +0200

tracing: Add documentation for the power tracer

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239479479-2603-4-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


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Documentation/trace/power.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/power.txt b/Documentation/trace/power.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd805e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/trace/power.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+The power tracer collects detailed information about C-state and P-state
+transitions, instead of just looking at the high-level "average"
+information.
+
+There is a helper script found in scrips/tracing/power.pl in the kernel
+sources which can be used to parse this information and create a
+Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) picture from the trace data.
+
+To use this tracer:
+
+ echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
+ echo power > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
+ echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
+ sleep 1
+ echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
+ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace | \
+ perl scripts/tracing/power.pl > out.sv

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