From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B55C46466 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 14:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50FD52065C for ; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 14:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726770AbgJFOgC (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2020 10:36:02 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:52456 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726534AbgJFOfN (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2020 10:35:13 -0400 Received: from gandalf.local.home (cpe-66-24-58-225.stny.res.rr.com [66.24.58.225]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9B53C2100A; Tue, 6 Oct 2020 14:35:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rostedt by gandalf.local.home with local (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1kPo3b-002zCi-Jw; Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:35:11 -0400 Message-ID: <20201006143511.456924028@goodmis.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:34:52 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Tom Zanussi Subject: [for-linus][PATCH 06/15] tracing: Add README information for synthetic_events file References: <20201006143446.182666356@goodmis.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Tom Zanussi Add an entry with a basic description of events/synthetic_events along with a simple example. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3c7f178cf95aaeebc01eda7d95600dd937233eb7.1601848695.git.zanussi@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 3f2533adae72..73fd0e0c0f39 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -5249,7 +5249,12 @@ static const char readme_msg[] = "\t trace(,param list) - generate synthetic event\n" "\t save(field,...) - save current event fields\n" #ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_SNAPSHOT - "\t snapshot() - snapshot the trace buffer\n" + "\t snapshot() - snapshot the trace buffer\n\n" +#endif +#ifdef CONFIG_SYNTH_EVENTS + " events/synthetic_events\t- Create/append/remove/show synthetic events\n" + "\t Write into this file to define/undefine new synthetic events.\n" + "\t example: echo 'myevent u64 lat; char name[]' >> synthetic_events\n" #endif #endif ; -- 2.28.0