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A fairly normal cycle for documentation stuff. We have a new
document on perf security, more Italian translations, more
improvements to the memory-management docs, improvements to the
pathname lookup documentation, and the usual array of smaller
fixes.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
"A fairly normal cycle for documentation stuff. We have a new document
on perf security, more Italian translations, more improvements to the
memory-management docs, improvements to the pathname lookup
documentation, and the usual array of smaller fixes.
As is often the case, there are a few reaches outside of
Documentation/ to adjust kerneldoc comments"
* tag 'docs-5.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (38 commits)
docs: improve pathname-lookup document structure
configfs: fix wrong name of struct in documentation
docs/mm-api: link slab_common.c to "The Slab Cache" section
slab: make kmem_cache_create{_usercopy} description proper kernel-doc
doc:process: add links where missing
docs/core-api: make mm-api.rst more structured
x86, boot: documentation whitespace fixup
Documentation: devres: note checking needs when converting
doc🇮🇹 add some process/* translations
doc🇮🇹 fixes in process/1.Intro
Documentation: convert path-lookup from markdown to resturctured text
Documentation/admin-guide: update admin-guide index.rst
Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file
scripts/kernel-doc: Fix struct and struct field attribute processing
Documentation: dev-tools: Fix typos in index.rst
Correct gen_init_cpio tool's documentation
Document /proc/pid PID reuse behavior
Documentation: update path-lookup.md for parallel lookups
Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"
dmaengine: Add mailing list address to the documentation
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Although ftrace is typically considered the function tracer, it
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is really a framework of several assorted tracing utilities.
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There's latency tracing to examine what occurs between interrupts
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disabled and enabled, as well as for preemption and from a time
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a task is woken to the task is actually scheduled in.
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One of the most common uses of ftrace is the event tracing.
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Through out the kernel is hundreds of static event points that
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Throughout the kernel is hundreds of static event points that
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can be enabled via the tracefs file system to see what is
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going on in certain parts of the kernel.
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mono_raw:
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This is the raw monotonic clock (CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW)
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which is montonic but is not subject to any rate adjustments
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which is monotonic but is not subject to any rate adjustments
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and ticks at the same rate as the hardware clocksource.
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boot:
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current trace and the next trace.
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- '$' - greater than 1 second
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- '@' - greater than 100 milisecond
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- '*' - greater than 10 milisecond
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- '@' - greater than 100 millisecond
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- '*' - greater than 10 millisecond
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- '#' - greater than 1000 microsecond
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- '!' - greater than 100 microsecond
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- '+' - greater than 10 microsecond
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recordmcount program (located in the scripts directory). This
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program will parse the ELF headers in the C object to find all
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the locations in the .text section that call mcount. Starting
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with gcc verson 4.6, the -mfentry has been added for x86, which
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with gcc version 4.6, the -mfentry has been added for x86, which
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calls "__fentry__" instead of "mcount". Which is called before
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the creation of the stack frame.
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When the function is hit, it will dump the contents of the ftrace
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ring buffer to the console. This is useful if you need to debug
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something, and want to dump the trace when a certain function
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is hit. Perhaps its a function that is called before a tripple
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is hit. Perhaps it's a function that is called before a triple
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fault happens and does not allow you to get a regular dump.
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- cpudump:
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