[patch 2/3] Linux Kernel Markers - Document format string

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Tue Nov 13 2007 - 13:43:19 EST


Describes the format string standard further: Use of field names before the type
specifiers..

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/markers.txt | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-lttng/Documentation/markers.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/Documentation/markers.txt 2007-11-11 22:04:50.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/Documentation/markers.txt 2007-11-11 22:04:57.000000000 -0500
@@ -35,12 +35,14 @@ In order to use the macro trace_mark, yo

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.


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Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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