tracing, documentation: Add a document on the kmem tracepoints
authorMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:02:49 +0000 (17:02 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:17:34 +0000 (07:17 -0700)
commit8fbb398f5c78832ee61e0d5ed0793fa8857bd853
tree889fc12c8eefc642ce9f368e76f9baf2bc3ef2ee
parentbb72222086260695d71afe60fa105649c1ea9463
tracing, documentation: Add a document on the kmem tracepoints

Knowing tracepoints exist is not quite the same as knowing what they
should be used for.  This patch adds a document giving a basic description
of the kmem tracepoints and why they might be useful to a performance
analyst.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/trace/events-kmem.txt [new file with mode: 0644]