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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-07-28 18:20:09 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-07-28 18:20:09 -0700
commitc624c86615fb8aa61fa76ed8c935446d06c80e77 (patch)
treecbb84b5e8185a4c251b574d4b40ad04b6e3e59f0 /Documentation
parente55884d2c6ac3ae50e49a1f6fe38601a91181719 (diff)
parent78aebca2c955c1c5aeb48e12645e13fe3c3461f2 (diff)
Merge tag 'trace-v4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "This is mostly clean ups and small fixes. Some of the more visible changes are: - The function pid code uses the event pid filtering logic - [ku]probe events have access to current->comm - trace_printk now has sample code - PCI devices now trace physical addresses - stack tracing has less unnessary functions traced" * tag 'trace-v4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: printk, tracing: Avoiding unneeded blank lines tracing: Use __get_str() when manipulating strings tracing, RAS: Cleanup on __get_str() usage tracing: Use outer () on __get_str() definition ftrace: Reduce size of function graph entries tracing: Have HIST_TRIGGERS select TRACING tracing: Using for_each_set_bit() to simplify trace_pid_write() ftrace: Move toplevel init out of ftrace_init_tracefs() tracing/function_graph: Fix filters for function_graph threshold tracing: Skip more functions when doing stack tracing of events tracing: Expose CPU physical addresses (resource values) for PCI devices tracing: Show the preempt count of when the event was called tracing: Add trace_printk sample code tracing: Choose static tp_printk buffer by explicit nesting count tracing: expose current->comm to [ku]probe events ftrace: Have set_ftrace_pid use the bitmap like events do tracing: Move pid_list write processing into its own function tracing: Move the pid_list seq_file functions to be global tracing: Move filtered_pid helper functions into trace.c tracing: Make the pid filtering helper functions global
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
index d68ea5fc812b..ea52ec1f8484 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events
$stackN : Fetch Nth entry of stack (N >= 0)
$stack : Fetch stack address.
$retval : Fetch return value.(*)
+ $comm : Fetch current task comm.
+|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(**)
NAME=FETCHARG : Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG.
FETCHARG:TYPE : Set TYPE as the type of FETCHARG. Currently, basic types
@@ -62,6 +63,8 @@ offset, and container-size (usually 32). The syntax is;
b<bit-width>@<bit-offset>/<container-size>
+For $comm, the default type is "string"; any other type is invalid.
+
Per-Probe Event Filtering
-------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt b/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt
index f1cf9a34ad9d..72d1cd4f7bf3 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Synopsis of uprobe_tracer
$stackN : Fetch Nth entry of stack (N >= 0)
$stack : Fetch stack address.
$retval : Fetch return value.(*)
+ $comm : Fetch current task comm.
+|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(**)
NAME=FETCHARG : Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG.
FETCHARG:TYPE : Set TYPE as the type of FETCHARG. Currently, basic types
@@ -57,6 +58,8 @@ offset, and container-size (usually 32). The syntax is;
b<bit-width>@<bit-offset>/<container-size>
+For $comm, the default type is "string"; any other type is invalid.
+
Event Profiling
---------------