Re: [PATCH v3] ftrace: add a tracepoint for __raise_softirq_irqoff()

[Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>]

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:41:32PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> 
> This patch is modified from Mathieu Desnoyers' patch. The original patch
> can be found here: 
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123791201816245&w=2
> This tracepoint can trace the time stamp when softirq action is raised. 
> 
> Changelog for v1 -> v2: 
> 1: Use TRACE_EVENT instead of DEFINE_TRACE
> 2: Move the tracepoint from raise_softirq_irqoff() to
>    __raise_softirq_irqoff()
> 
> Changelog for v2 -> v3: 
> Move the definition of __raise_softifq_irqoff() to .c file when
> CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS is enabled, to avoid recursive includes
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
> 

hi,

Could you please add 'docbook' style comments above TRACE_EVENTi()? We
recently added a tracepoint docbook to the -tip and it already contains
an 'irq' chapter, so you just need to add the comments for the raise
softirq tracepoint. Please see: 

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124118471411710&w=2

thanks,

-Jason