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From: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
To: "Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
	"linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org" <linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	"Schofield, Alison" <alison.schofield@intel.com>,
	"rostedt@goodmis.org" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"Weiny, Ira" <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 10/10] cxl: add man page documentation for monitor
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 00:58:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc92e8defb8da60a60a1f0e9802e4b4d914f3912.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <166793224539.3768752.16520384828313781321.stgit@djiang5-desk3.ch.intel.com>

On Tue, 2022-11-08 at 11:30 -0700, Dave Jiang wrote:
> Add man page documentation to explain the usage of cxl monitor.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/cxl/cxl-monitor.txt |   77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Is this missing an update to a meson.build in Documentation/cxl?

>  1 file changed, 77 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/cxl/cxl-monitor.txt
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/cxl/cxl-monitor.txt b/Documentation/cxl/cxl-monitor.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..43c2ece72220
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/cxl/cxl-monitor.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +cxl-monitor(1)
> +================

Unaligned '===' line

> +
> +NAME
> +----
> +cxl-monitor - Monitor the CXL kernel trace events

Probably drop 'kernel' here.

> +
> +SYNOPSIS
> +--------
> +[verse]
> +'cxl monitor' [<options>]
> +
> +DESCRIPTION
> +-----------
> +Cxl monitor is used for monitoring the CXL trace events emitted by

s/Cxl/CXL/ or s/Cxl monitor/cxl-monitor/ I think.

> +the kernel and convert them to json objects and dumping the json format
> +notifications to standard output or a logfile.
> +
> +Both, the values in configuration file and in options will work. If

s/file/file,/

Also is config file support actually present yet?

> +there is a conflict, the values in options will override the values in
> +the configuration file. Any updated values in the configuration file will
> +take effect only after the monitor process is restarted.
> +
> +EXAMPLES
> +--------
> +
> +Run a monitor as a daemon to monitor events and output to a log file.
> +[verse]
> +cxl monitor --daemon --log=/var/log/cxl-monitor.log
> +
> +Run a monitor as a one-shot command and output the notifications to stdio.
> +[verse]
> +cxl monitor
> +
> +Run a monitor daemon as a system service
> +[verse]
> +systemctl start cxl-monitor.service
> +
> +OPTIONS
> +-------
> +-l::
> +--log=::
> +       Send log messages to the specified destination.
> +       - "<file>":
> +         Send log messages to specified <file>. When fopen() is not able
> +         to open <file>, log messages will be forwarded to syslog.
> +       - "standard":
> +         Send messages to standard output.
> +
> +The default log destination is '/var/log/cxl-monitor.log' if "--daemon" is specified,
> +otherwise 'standard'. Note that standard and relative path for <file>
> +will not work if "--daemon" is specified.
> +
> +--daemon::
> +       Run a monitor as a daemon.
> +
> +-u::
> +--human::
> +       Output monitor notification as human friendly json format instead
> +       of the default machine friendly json format.
> +
> +-v::
> +--verbose::
> +       Emit extra debug messages to log.
> +
> +COPYRIGHT
> +---------
> +Copyright (c) 2022, Intel Corp. License GPLv2: GNU GPL version 2
> +<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are
> +free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the
> +extent permitted by law.

I think there is an include for the copyright under Documentation/cxl,
as well as for human and verbose options.

> +
> +SEE ALSO
> +--------
> +linkcxl:cxl-list[1]
> 
> 


      reply	other threads:[~2022-11-09  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-08 18:29 [PATCH v4 00/10] cxl: add monitor support for trace events Dave Jiang
2022-11-08 18:29 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] cxl: add helper function to parse trace event to json object Dave Jiang
2022-11-08 23:02   ` Verma, Vishal L
2022-11-09 21:27     ` Dave Jiang
2022-11-08 18:29 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] cxl: add helper to parse through all current events Dave Jiang
2022-11-08 23:45   ` Verma, Vishal L
2022-11-09 21:30     ` Dave Jiang
2022-11-08 18:30 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] cxl: add common function to enable event trace Dave Jiang
2022-11-08 18:30 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] cxl: add common function to disable " Dave Jiang
2022-11-08 23:47   ` Verma, Vishal L
2022-11-08 18:30 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] cxl: add monitor function for event trace events Dave Jiang
2022-11-17 18:37   ` Steven Rostedt
2022-11-17 20:29     ` Dave Jiang
2022-11-17 20:33       ` Steven Rostedt
2022-11-17 20:44         ` Dave Jiang
2022-11-08 18:30 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] cxl: add logging functions for monitor Dave Jiang
2022-11-09  0:31   ` Verma, Vishal L
2022-11-08 18:30 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] cxl: add monitor command to cxl Dave Jiang
2022-11-09  0:35   ` Verma, Vishal L
2022-11-08 18:30 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] cxl: add an optional pid check to event parsing Dave Jiang
2022-11-09  0:48   ` Verma, Vishal L
2022-11-09 22:44     ` Dave Jiang
2022-11-08 18:30 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] cxl: add systemd service for monitor Dave Jiang
2022-11-09  0:48   ` Verma, Vishal L
2022-11-08 18:30 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] cxl: add man page documentation " Dave Jiang
2022-11-09  0:58   ` Verma, Vishal L [this message]

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