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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca,
	josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com,
	eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com, patches@linaro.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 04/13] rcu: Update trace_rcu_dyntick() header comment
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:32:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1322523185-456-4-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111128233212.GA32279@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

From: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>

This commit updates the trace_rcu_dyntick() header comment to reflect
events added by commit 4b4f421.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 include/trace/events/rcu.h |   12 ++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/trace/events/rcu.h b/include/trace/events/rcu.h
index c29fb2f..7f6877a 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/rcu.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/rcu.h
@@ -241,8 +241,16 @@ TRACE_EVENT(rcu_fqs,
 
 /*
  * Tracepoint for dyntick-idle entry/exit events.  These take a string
- * as argument: "Start" for entering dyntick-idle mode and "End" for
- * leaving it.
+ * as argument: "Start" for entering dyntick-idle mode, "End" for
+ * leaving it, "--=" for events moving towards idle, and "++=" for events
+ * moving away from idle.  "Error on entry: not idle task" and "Error on
+ * exit: not idle task" indicate that a non-idle task is erroneously
+ * toying with the idle loop.
+ *
+ * These events also take a pair of numbers, which indicate the nesting
+ * depth before and after the event of interest.  Note that task-related
+ * events use the upper bits of each number, while interrupt-related
+ * events use the lower bits.
  */
 TRACE_EVENT(rcu_dyntick,
 
-- 
1.7.3.2


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-28 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-28 23:32 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/13] Preview of yet more RCU changes for 3.3 Paul E. McKenney
2011-11-28 23:32 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 01/13] rcu: Add rcutorture CPU-hotplug capability Paul E. McKenney
2011-11-28 23:32 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 02/13] nohz: Remove tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() / tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu() Paul E. McKenney
2011-11-28 23:32 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2011-11-28 23:32 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 05/13] rcu: Add tracing for RCU_FAST_NO_HZ Paul E. McKenney
2011-11-28 23:32 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 06/13] rcu: Go dyntick-idle more quickly if CPU has serviced current grace period Paul E. McKenney
2011-11-28 23:32 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 07/13] rcu: Avoid needlessly IPIing CPUs at GP end Paul E. McKenney
2011-11-28 23:33 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 08/13] rcu: Eliminate RCU_FAST_NO_HZ grace-period hang Paul E. McKenney
2011-11-28 23:33 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 09/13] rcu: Reduce latency of rcu_prepare_for_idle() Paul E. McKenney
2011-11-28 23:33 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 10/13] rcu: Remove dynticks false positives and RCU failures Paul E. McKenney
2011-11-28 23:33 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 11/13] rcu: Identify dyntick-idle CPUs on first force_quiescent_state() pass Paul E. McKenney
2011-11-28 23:33 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 12/13] rcu: Document same-context read-side constraints Paul E. McKenney
2011-11-28 23:33 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 13/13] rcu: Permit dyntick-idle with callbacks pending Paul E. McKenney

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