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| author | Stefan Raspl <raspl@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2013-11-06 22:18:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2013-12-02 14:47:05 +0100 |
| commit | 0899d6ac4677efc6839a4532adcaeb772021f38d (patch) | |
| tree | b3d2fa88153f97cca3b671851c7a84c7897ba493 /Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt | |
| parent | DocBook: Make mandocs parallel-safe (diff) | |
| download | linux-0899d6ac4677efc6839a4532adcaeb772021f38d.tar.xz linux-0899d6ac4677efc6839a4532adcaeb772021f38d.zip | |
documentation: Add links to TRACE_EVENT documentation
documentation: Add links to TRACE_EVENT documentation
Existing tracepoint documentation doesn't mention the popular
TRACE_EVENT
macro. Since an excellent series of articles on proper usage already
exists, respective links are added to the existing documentation.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Raspl <raspl@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt b/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt index ac4170dd0f24..6b018b53177a 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt @@ -114,3 +114,8 @@ core kernel image or in modules. If the tracepoint has to be used in kernel modules, an EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL_GPL() or EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL() can be used to export the defined tracepoints. + +Note: The convenience macro TRACE_EVENT provides an alternative way to + define tracepoints. Check http://lwn.net/Articles/379903, + http://lwn.net/Articles/381064 and http://lwn.net/Articles/383362 + for a series of articles with more details. |