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Commit 44ad18e0 authored by Steven Rostedt's avatar Steven Rostedt Committed by Steven Rostedt
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tracing: update sample event documentation



The comments in the sample code is a bit confusing. This patch
cleans them up a little.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent 00e95830
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# builds the trace events example kernel modules;
# then to use one (as root):  insmod <module_name.ko>

# If you include a trace header outside of include/trace/events
# then the file that does the #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS must
# have that tracer file in its main search path. This is because
# define_trace.h will include it, and must be able to find it from
# the include/trace directory.
#
# Here trace-events-sample.c does the CREATE_TRACE_POINTS.
#
CFLAGS_trace-events-sample.o := -I$(src)

obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_TRACE_EVENTS) += trace-events-sample.o
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@@ -19,16 +19,21 @@
 * If TRACE_SYSTEM is defined, that will be the directory created
 * in the ftrace directory under /debugfs/tracing/events/<system>
 *
 * The define_trace.h belowe will also look for a file name of
 * The define_trace.h below will also look for a file name of
 * TRACE_SYSTEM.h where TRACE_SYSTEM is what is defined here.
 * In this case, it would look for sample.h
 *
 * If you want a different system than file name, you can override
 * the header name by defining TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE
 * If the header name will be different than the system name
 * (as in this case), then you can override the header name that
 * define_trace.h will look up by defining TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE
 *
 * If this file was called, goofy.h, then we would define:
 * This file is called trace-events-sample.h but we want the system
 * to be called "sample". Therefore we must define the name of this
 * file:
 *
 * #define TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE goofy
 * #define TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE trace-events-sample
 *
 * As we do an the bottom of this file.
 */
#undef TRACE_SYSTEM
#define TRACE_SYSTEM sample
@@ -99,13 +104,13 @@ TRACE_EVENT(foo_bar,
 *
 * #define TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH ../../samples/trace_events
 *
 * But I chose to simply make it use the current directory and then in
 * the Makefile I added:
 * But the safest and easiest way to simply make it use the directory
 * that the file is in is to add in the Makefile:
 *
 * CFLAGS_trace-events-sample.o := -I$(PWD)/samples/trace_events/
 * CFLAGS_trace-events-sample.o := -I$(src)
 *
 * This will make sure the current path is part of the include
 * structure for our file so that we can find it.
 * structure for our file so that define_trace.h can find it.
 *
 * I could have made only the top level directory the include:
 *
@@ -115,8 +120,8 @@ TRACE_EVENT(foo_bar,
 *
 * #define TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH samples/trace_events
 *
 * But then if something defines "samples" or "trace_events" then we
 * could risk that being converted too, and give us an unexpected
 * But then if something defines "samples" or "trace_events" as a macro
 * then we could risk that being converted too, and give us an unexpected
 * result.
 */
#undef TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH