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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/trace')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt | 5 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt index ea2d35d64d26..bd365988e8d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt @@ -655,7 +655,11 @@ explains which is which. read the irq flags variable, an 'X' will always be printed here. - need-resched: 'N' task need_resched is set, '.' otherwise. + need-resched: + 'N' both TIF_NEED_RESCHED and PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED is set, + 'n' only TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, + 'p' only PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED is set, + '.' otherwise. hardirq/softirq: 'H' - hard irq occurred inside a softirq. 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. |