The histogram documentation describes the old method of the histogram
triggers using the fn() field of the histogram field structure to process
the field. But due to Spectre mitigation, the function pointer to handle
the fields at runtime caused a noticeable overhead. It was converted over
to a fn_num and hist_fn_call() is now used to call the specific functions
for the fields via a switch statement based on the field's fn_num value.
Update the documentation to reflect this change.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260126181742.03e8f0d5@gandalf.local.home>
Use Sphinx note:: directive for the introductory note at the beginning
of docs, instead of aligned-text paragraph that renders as definition
list.
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20250916054202.582074-6-bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Section heading for sched_waking histogram is shown as normal paragraph
instead due to codeblock marker for the following diagram being in the
same line as the section underline. Separate them.
Fixes: daceabf1b4 ("tracing/doc: Fix ascii-art in histogram-design.rst")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20250916054202.582074-5-bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Diagram explanation text is supposed to be interleaved commentary
between diagram parts that are spread out, but it outputs ugly in
htmldocs due to trailing vertices as if both the explanation and the
diagram are in the same literal code block.
Trim trailing vertices.
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20250916054202.582074-4-bagasdotme@gmail.com>
The canonical location for the tracefs filesystem is at /sys/kernel/tracing.
But, from Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst:
Before 4.1, all ftrace tracing control files were within the debugfs
file system, which is typically located at /sys/kernel/debug/tracing.
For backward compatibility, when mounting the debugfs file system,
the tracefs file system will be automatically mounted at:
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing
Many parts of Documentation still reference this older debugfs path, so
let's update them to avoid confusion.
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230125213251.2013791-1-zwisler@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This fixes the Sphinx parallel build error when building htmldocs:
docutils.utils.SystemMessage: /home/sfr/next/next/Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst:219: (SEVERE/4) Unexpected section title.
It also fixes a bunch of other warnings I noticed when fixing the
above, caused by mixing ascii-art and text.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/69c291c76964642a417e5dd170d183ba6b552010.camel@kernel.org
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's a few typos in the histogram-design.rst document that need need to
be fixed.
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a new Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst file describing the
ftrace histogram low-level design, meant to help developers trying to
understand the internals when extending or making use of the hist
triggers for higher-level tools.
This documentation refers to the hist_debug files implemented by
'tracing: Add hist_debug trace event files for histogram debugging' so
users wishing to try out the test examples here should make sure
CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG is enabled.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/256b29c3274bb89a10157c4a8d1a8bce7e74849e.1585941485.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
