linux-kernel - Re: Documenting kernel tracepoints

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Message-ID: <20090318164433.GA31315@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:44:33 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Documenting kernel tracepoints


* William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com> wrote:

> There are a number of tracepoints in the latest kernels, but not 
> much documentation on the tracepoints.  If a very recent version 
> of systemtap is available on the system, a list of the probe 
> points can be obtained with:
> 
> stap -p2 -e 'probe kernel.trace("*") {exit()}'|sort
> 
> However, this only provides the names. It doesn't provide 
> information about what information the probe point provides or the 
> arguments available at the probe point.
> 
> Currently, a number of kernel functions and structures are 
> documented with embedded comments that are extracted with 
> kernel-doc. Seems like it would be reasonable to extend this to 
> support tracepoints. Any thoughts or comments about this approach?

FYI, in the latest tracing tree (targeted for 2.6.30) all 
tracepoints show up under /debug/tracing/events/.

	Ingo
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