Commit 1606f8d8 authored by Changbin Du's avatar Changbin Du Committed by Jonathan Corbet

trace doc: convert trace/stm.txt to rst format

This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChangbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 6613581e
......@@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ Linux Tracing Technologies
mmiotrace
hwlat_detector
intel_th
stm
===================
System Trace Module
===================
......@@ -32,14 +33,14 @@ associated with it, located in "stp-policy" subsystem directory in
configfs. The topmost directory's name (the policy) is formatted as
the STM device name to which this policy applies and and arbitrary
string identifier separated by a stop. From the examle above, a rule
may look like this:
may look like this::
$ ls /config/stp-policy/dummy_stm.my-policy/user
channels masters
$ cat /config/stp-policy/dummy_stm.my-policy/user/masters
48 63
$ cat /config/stp-policy/dummy_stm.my-policy/user/channels
0 127
$ ls /config/stp-policy/dummy_stm.my-policy/user
channels masters
$ cat /config/stp-policy/dummy_stm.my-policy/user/masters
48 63
$ cat /config/stp-policy/dummy_stm.my-policy/user/channels
0 127
which means that the master allocation pool for this rule consists of
masters 48 through 63 and channel allocation pool has channels 0
......@@ -78,9 +79,9 @@ stm_source
For kernel-based trace sources, there is "stm_source" device
class. Devices of this class can be connected and disconnected to/from
stm devices at runtime via a sysfs attribute called "stm_source_link"
by writing the name of the desired stm device there, for example:
by writing the name of the desired stm device there, for example::
$ echo dummy_stm.0 > /sys/class/stm_source/console/stm_source_link
$ echo dummy_stm.0 > /sys/class/stm_source/console/stm_source_link
For examples on how to use stm_source interface in the kernel, refer
to stm_console, stm_heartbeat or stm_ftrace drivers.
......@@ -118,5 +119,5 @@ the same time.
Currently only Ftrace "function" tracer is supported.
[1] https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/d3/3c/intel-th-developer-manual.pdf
[2] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0444b/index.html
* [1] https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/d3/3c/intel-th-developer-manual.pdf
* [2] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0444b/index.html
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