Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755532AbYGLMtV (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:49:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752369AbYGLMtI (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:49:08 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.233]:23770 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752859AbYGLMtG (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:49:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=LQ28NLU4XLMCk/sZHpFLVqN+54t5gX9kWWj9h8PaDZUt/AMcgwFeNl1/GybpMcPdk7 kt+guSnkLva2TrNDMbI3ni9o9koJO3AmHhOjuCvCh+HteG5H7IBluD+AcgW9BwSyUGU9 eWFto/Qs4lcdP5dJdIdWuik/4AkzdJbRDDMGM= Message-ID: <863e9df20807120549r793c93c3o4c6049bed8670149@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:19:03 +0530 From: "Abhishek Sagar" To: "Steven Rostedt" Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftrace: Documentation Cc: LKML , "Ingo Molnar" , "Thomas Gleixner" , "Peter Zijlstra" , "Clark Williams" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Andrew Morton" , "Randy Dunlap" , "Jon Masters" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1201 Lines: 35 On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > This is the long awaited ftrace.txt. It explains in quite detail how to > use ftrace and the various tracers. This is quite good. Thanks! > +Output format: > +-------------- > + > +Here's an example of the output format of the file "trace" > + > + -------- > +# tracer: ftrace > +# > +# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION > +# | | | | | > + bash-4251 [01] 10152.583854: path_put <-path_walk > + bash-4251 [01] 10152.583855: dput <-path_put > + bash-4251 [01] 10152.583855: _atomic_dec_and_lock <-dput > + -------- A small caveat here...the function names may be substituted with a "[unkown/kretprobe'd]" under special circumstances (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/27/275). May be that should be mentioned here? -- Regards, Abhishek -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/