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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst index 7e7b8ec17934..2b74f96d09d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst @@ -810,6 +810,12 @@ Here is the list of current tracers that may be configured. to draw a graph of function calls similar to C code source. + Note that the function graph calculates the timings of when the + function starts and returns internally and for each instance. If + there are two instances that run function graph tracer and traces + the same functions, the length of the timings may be slightly off as + each read the timestamp separately and not at the same time. + "blk" The block tracer. The tracer used by the blktrace user @@ -1031,14 +1037,15 @@ explains which is which. CPU#: The CPU which the process was running on. irqs-off: 'd' interrupts are disabled. '.' otherwise. - .. caution:: If the architecture does not support a way to - read the irq flags variable, an 'X' will always - be printed here. need-resched: + - 'B' all, TIF_NEED_RESCHED, PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED and TIF_RESCHED_LAZY is set, - 'N' both TIF_NEED_RESCHED and PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED is set, - 'n' only TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, - 'p' only PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED is set, + - 'L' both PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED and TIF_RESCHED_LAZY is set, + - 'b' both TIF_NEED_RESCHED and TIF_RESCHED_LAZY is set, + - 'l' only TIF_RESCHED_LAZY is set - '.' otherwise. hardirq/softirq: @@ -1186,6 +1193,18 @@ Here are the available options: trace_printk Can disable trace_printk() from writing into the buffer. + trace_printk_dest + Set to have trace_printk() and similar internal tracing functions + write into this instance. Note, only one trace instance can have + this set. By setting this flag, it clears the trace_printk_dest flag + of the instance that had it set previously. By default, the top + level trace has this set, and will get it set again if another + instance has it set then clears it. + + This flag cannot be cleared by the top level instance, as it is the + default instance. The only way the top level instance has this flag + cleared, is by it being set in another instance. + annotate It is sometimes confusing when the CPU buffers are full and one CPU buffer had a lot of events recently, thus @@ -1968,7 +1987,7 @@ wakeup One common case that people are interested in tracing is the time it takes for a task that is woken to actually wake up. Now for non Real-Time tasks, this can be arbitrary. But tracing -it none the less can be interesting. +it nonetheless can be interesting. Without function tracing:: |