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authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>2007-11-14 16:59:49 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-11-14 18:45:40 -0800
commit5f9468cebfdb7b809139e7682d388f9c31297936 (patch)
tree853abd4416ec11a8774598ebdbd0bdfd42300092 /Documentation/markers.txt
parent314de8a9e17f70243eacc80d2dd22a5d74b09fce (diff)
Linux Kernel Markers: document format string
Describes the format string standard further: Use of field names before the type specifiers.. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/markers.txt b/Documentation/markers.txt
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@@ -35,12 +35,14 @@ In order to use the macro trace_mark, you should include linux/marker.h.
And,
-trace_mark(subsystem_event, "%d %s", someint, somestring);
+trace_mark(subsystem_event, "myint %d mystring %s", someint, somestring);
Where :
- subsystem_event is an identifier unique to your event
- subsystem is the name of your subsystem.
- event is the name of the event to mark.
-- "%d %s" is the formatted string for the serializer.
+- "myint %d mystring %s" is the formatted string for the serializer. "myint" and
+ "mystring" are repectively the field names associated with the first and
+ second parameter.
- someint is an integer.
- somestring is a char pointer.