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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/automount-tracefs-debugfs b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/automount-tracefs-debugfs new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a5196ec78cb5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/automount-tracefs-debugfs @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +What: /sys/kernel/debug/tracing +Date: May 2008 +KernelVersion: 2.6.27 +Contact: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org +Description: + + The ftrace was first added to the kernel, its interface was placed + into the debugfs file system under the "tracing" directory. Access + to the files were in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing. As systems wanted + access to the tracing interface without having to enable debugfs, a + new interface was created called "tracefs". This was a stand alone + file system and was usually mounted in /sys/kernel/tracing. + + To allow older tooling to continue to operate, when mounting + debugfs, the tracefs file system would automatically get mounted in + the "tracing" directory of debugfs. The tracefs interface was added + in January 2015 in the v4.1 kernel. + + All tooling should now be using tracefs directly and the "tracing" + directory in debugfs should be removed by January 2030. |