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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ftrace: Documentation


On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Abhishek Sagar wrote:

>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> >
> > This is the long awaited ftrace.txt. It explains in quite detail how to
> > use ftrace and the various tracers.
>
> This is quite good. Thanks!
>
> > +Output format:
> > +--------------
> > +
> > +Here's an example of the output format of the file "trace"
> > +
> > + --------
> > +# tracer: ftrace
> > +#
> > +# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
> > +# | | | | |
> > + bash-4251 [01] 10152.583854: path_put <-path_walk
> > + bash-4251 [01] 10152.583855: dput <-path_put
> > + bash-4251 [01] 10152.583855: _atomic_dec_and_lock <-dput
> > + --------
>
> A small caveat here...the function names may be substituted with a
> "[unkown/kretprobe'd]" under special circumstances
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/27/275). May be that should be mentioned
> here?

Hmm, I thinking that this might be too much information for this document.
If you can think of a good way to expline this without "overloading" the
reader, then please, let me know.

Thanks,

-- Steve



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