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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 12:24:02 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Linux Trace Kernel
 <linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan
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Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>, Mathieu Desnoyers
 <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3] ring-buffer/Documentation: Add documentation on
 buffer_percent file
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From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>

When the buffer_percent file was added to the kernel, the documentation
should have been updated to document what that file does.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Fixes: 03329f9939781 ("tracing: Add tracefs file buffer_percentage")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
Changes since v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231226130149.4685c838@gandalf.local.home

- s/watermark/water-mark/ (Randy Dunlap)

- Added '::' and indented the number list so that it has better
  formatting (kernel test robot)

 Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
index 933e7efb9f1b..917501a2f348 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
@@ -180,6 +180,21 @@ of ftrace. Here is a list of some of the key files:
 	Only active when the file contains a number greater than 0.
 	(in microseconds)
 
+  buffer_percent:
+
+	This is the watermark for how much the ring buffer needs to be filled
+	before a waiter is woken up. That is, if an application calls a
+	blocking read syscall on one of the per_cpu trace_pipe_raw files, it
+	will block until the given amount of data specified by buffer_percent
+	is in the ring buffer before it wakes the reader up. This also
+	controls how the splice system calls are blocked on this file::
+
+	  0   - means to wake up as soon as there is any data in the ring buffer.
+	  50  - means to wake up when roughly half of the ring buffer sub-buffers
+	        are full.
+	  100 - means to block until the ring buffer is totally full and is
+	        about to start overwriting the older data.
+
   buffer_size_kb:
 
 	This sets or displays the number of kilobytes each CPU
-- 
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