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authorMadhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>2020-05-04 08:05:05 -0400
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2020-06-29 11:58:49 -0700
commit88748e330040ecf4681a2c8f344fd386862bf913 (patch)
tree3373b3f05a013a7ec162fba396d50a5a964672c9 /include/trace
parentf8466f94685b5bd931384526cf51e090fd2ac706 (diff)
trace: events: rcu: Change description of rcu_dyntick trace event
The different strings used for describing the polarity are Start, End and StillNonIdle. Since StillIdle is not used in any trace point for rcu_dyntick, it can be removed and StillNonIdle can be added in the description. Because StillNonIdle is used in a few tracepoints for rcu_dyntick. Similarly, USER, IDLE and IRQ are used for describing context in the rcu_dyntick tracepoints. Since, "KERNEL" is not used for any of the rcu_dyntick tracepoints, remove it from the description. Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/trace')
-rw-r--r--include/trace/events/rcu.h11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/trace/events/rcu.h b/include/trace/events/rcu.h
index f9a7811148e2..af274d1532bf 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/rcu.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/rcu.h
@@ -435,11 +435,12 @@ TRACE_EVENT_RCU(rcu_fqs,
#endif /* #if defined(CONFIG_TREE_RCU) */
/*
- * Tracepoint for dyntick-idle entry/exit events. These take a string
- * as argument: "Start" for entering dyntick-idle mode, "Startirq" for
- * entering it from irq/NMI, "End" for leaving it, "Endirq" for leaving it
- * to irq/NMI, "--=" for events moving towards idle, and "++=" for events
- * moving away from idle.
+ * Tracepoint for dyntick-idle entry/exit events. These take 2 strings
+ * as argument:
+ * polarity: "Start", "End", "StillNonIdle" for entering, exiting or still not
+ * being in dyntick-idle mode.
+ * context: "USER" or "IDLE" or "IRQ".
+ * NMIs nested in IRQs are inferred with dynticks_nesting > 1 in IRQ context.
*
* These events also take a pair of numbers, which indicate the nesting
* depth before and after the event of interest, and a third number that is