linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 5/7] tracing: Add README information for synthetic

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Message-Id: <3c7f178cf95aaeebc01eda7d95600dd937233eb7.1601848695.git.zanussi@kernel.org>
Date:   Sun,  4 Oct 2020 17:14:07 -0500
From:   Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>
To:     rostedt@...dmis.org, axelrasmussen@...gle.com
Cc:     mhiramat@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 5/7] tracing: Add README information for synthetic_events file

Add an entry with a basic description of events/synthetic_events along
with a simple example.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>
---
 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(<synthetic_event>,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
 ;
-- 
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