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From: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
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Cc: surenb@google.com, hridya@google.com, namhyung@kernel.org,
	kernel-team@android.com, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	mhiramat@kernel.org, Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>, Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/4] tracing/histogram: Document hist trigger variables
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 11:33:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211029183339.3216491-4-kaleshsingh@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211029183339.3216491-1-kaleshsingh@google.com>

Update the tracefs README to describe how hist trigger variables
can be created.

Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
---

Changes in v2:
  - Add Masami's Acked-by.

 kernel/trace/trace.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index bc677cd64224..c41b3786401d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -5628,6 +5628,7 @@ static const char readme_msg[] =
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS
 	"      hist trigger\t- If set, event hits are aggregated into a hash table\n"
 	"\t    Format: hist:keys=<field1[,field2,...]>\n"
+	"\t            [:<var1>=<field|var_ref|numeric_literal>[,<var2>=...]]\n"
 	"\t            [:values=<field1[,field2,...]>]\n"
 	"\t            [:sort=<field1[,field2,...]>]\n"
 	"\t            [:size=#entries]\n"
@@ -5639,6 +5640,16 @@ static const char readme_msg[] =
 	"\t            common_timestamp - to record current timestamp\n"
 	"\t            common_cpu - to record the CPU the event happened on\n"
 	"\n"
+	"\t    A hist trigger variable can be:\n"
+	"\t        - a reference to a field e.g. x=current_timestamp,\n"
+	"\t        - a reference to another variable e.g. y=$x,\n"
+	"\t        - a numeric literal: e.g. ms_per_sec=1000,\n"
+	"\t        - an arithmetic expression: e.g. time_secs=current_timestamp/1000\n"
+	"\n"
+	"\t    hist trigger aritmethic expressions support addition(+), subtraction(-),\n"
+	"\t    multiplication(*) and division(/) operators. An operand can be either a\n"
+	"\t    variable reference, field or numeric literal.\n"
+	"\n"
 	"\t    When a matching event is hit, an entry is added to a hash\n"
 	"\t    table using the key(s) and value(s) named, and the value of a\n"
 	"\t    sum called 'hitcount' is incremented.  Keys and values\n"
-- 
2.33.1.1089.g2158813163f-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-29 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-29 18:33 [PATCH 0/4] tracing/histogram: Division optimization and expression kselftests Kalesh Singh
2021-10-29 18:33 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] tracing/histogram: Optimize division by constants Kalesh Singh
2021-10-29 18:45   ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-29 18:53     ` Kalesh Singh
2021-10-29 19:16       ` Kalesh Singh
2021-10-29 20:25       ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-29 22:31         ` Kalesh Singh
2021-10-29 23:24           ` [PATCH v3] " Kalesh Singh
2021-10-29 18:33 ` [PATCH 2/4] tracing/histogram: Update division by 0 documentation Kalesh Singh
2021-10-29 18:33 ` Kalesh Singh [this message]
2021-10-29 18:33 ` [PATCH v7 4/4] tracing/selftests: Add tests for hist trigger expression parsing Kalesh Singh

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