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Subject[RFC][PATCH 4/4] tracing: Update the documentation to describe "event-fork" option
From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Add documentation to the ftrace.txt file in Documentation to describe the
event-fork option. Also add the missing "display-graph" option now that it
shows up in the trace_options file (from a previous commit).

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
index f52f297cb406..fdf18485db2b 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
@@ -210,6 +210,11 @@ of ftrace. Here is a list of some of the key files:
Note, sched_switch and sched_wake_up will also trace events
listed in this file.

+ To have the PIDs of children of tasks with their PID in this file
+ added on fork, enable the "event-fork" option. That option will also
+ cause the PIDs of tasks to be removed from this file when the task
+ exits.
+
set_graph_function:

Set a "trigger" function where tracing should start
@@ -725,16 +730,14 @@ noraw
nohex
nobin
noblock
-nostacktrace
trace_printk
-noftrace_preempt
nobranch
annotate
nouserstacktrace
nosym-userobj
noprintk-msg-only
context-info
-latency-format
+nolatency-format
sleep-time
graph-time
record-cmd
@@ -742,7 +745,10 @@ overwrite
nodisable_on_free
irq-info
markers
+noevent-fork
function-trace
+nodisplay-graph
+nostacktrace

To disable one of the options, echo in the option prepended with
"no".
@@ -796,11 +802,6 @@ Here are the available options:

block - When set, reading trace_pipe will not block when polled.

- stacktrace - This is one of the options that changes the trace
- itself. When a trace is recorded, so is the stack
- of functions. This allows for back traces of
- trace sites.
-
trace_printk - Can disable trace_printk() from writing into the buffer.

branch - Enable branch tracing with the tracer.
@@ -897,6 +898,10 @@ x494] <- /root/a.out[+0x4a8] <- /lib/libc-2.7.so[+0x1e1a6]
When disabled, the trace_marker will error with EINVAL
on write.

+ event-fork - When set, tasks with PIDs listed in set_event_pid will have
+ the PIDs of their children added to set_event_pid when those
+ tasks fork. Also, when tasks with PIDs in set_event_pid exit,
+ their PIDs will be removed from the file.

function-trace - The latency tracers will enable function tracing
if this option is enabled (default it is). When
@@ -904,8 +909,17 @@ x494] <- /root/a.out[+0x4a8] <- /lib/libc-2.7.so[+0x1e1a6]
functions. This keeps the overhead of the tracer down
when performing latency tests.

- Note: Some tracers have their own options. They only appear
- when the tracer is active.
+ display-graph - When set, the latency tracers (irqsoff, wakeup, etc) will
+ use function graph tracing instead of function tracing.
+
+ stacktrace - This is one of the options that changes the trace
+ itself. When a trace is recorded, so is the stack
+ of functions. This allows for back traces of
+ trace sites.
+
+ Note: Some tracers have their own options. They only appear in this
+ file when the tracer is active. They always appear in the
+ options directory.



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