Re: Documenting kernel tracepoints

[Ingo Molnar]

* William Cohen <wcohen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There are a number of tracepoints in the latest kernels, but not 
> much documentation on the tracepoints.  If a very recent version 
> of systemtap is available on the system, a list of the probe 
> points can be obtained with:
> 
> stap -p2 -e 'probe kernel.trace("*") {exit()}'|sort
> 
> However, this only provides the names. It doesn't provide 
> information about what information the probe point provides or the 
> arguments available at the probe point.
> 
> Currently, a number of kernel functions and structures are 
> documented with embedded comments that are extracted with 
> kernel-doc. Seems like it would be reasonable to extend this to 
> support tracepoints. Any thoughts or comments about this approach?

FYI, in the latest tracing tree (targeted for 2.6.30) all 
tracepoints show up under /debug/tracing/events/.

	Ingo
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