Re: [PATCH 4/4] tracing, page-allocator: Add a postprocessing script for page-allocator-related ftrace events

Ingo Molnar
2009-08-05T09:17:24Z

* Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:

> > I.e. we'd have your patch in the end, but also with some
> > feel-good thoughts made about it on a higher level, so that we
> > can be reasonably sure that we have a meaningful set of
> > tracepoints.
>
> Ok, I think I could put together such a description for the page
> allocator tracepoints using the leader and your mail as starting
> points. I reckon the best place for the end result would be
> Documentation/vm/tracepoints.txt

The canonical place for that info is Documentation/trace/ - we
already have a collection of similar bits there:

events.txt kmemtrace.txt power.txt tracepoints.txt
ftrace.txt mmiotrace.txt ring-buffer-design.txt

Ingo