Commit 57e5f29f authored by Changbin Du's avatar Changbin Du Committed by Jonathan Corbet

trace doc: convert trace/events-msr.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 15ba0538
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MSR Trace Events
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The x86 kernel supports tracing most MSR (Model Specific Register) accesses. The x86 kernel supports tracing most MSR (Model Specific Register) accesses.
To see the definition of the MSRs on Intel systems please see the SDM To see the definition of the MSRs on Intel systems please see the SDM
...@@ -7,31 +10,31 @@ Available trace points: ...@@ -7,31 +10,31 @@ Available trace points:
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/msr/ /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/msr/
Trace MSR reads Trace MSR reads:
read_msr read_msr
msr: MSR number - msr: MSR number
val: Value written - val: Value written
failed: 1 if the access failed, otherwise 0 - failed: 1 if the access failed, otherwise 0
Trace MSR writes Trace MSR writes:
write_msr write_msr
msr: MSR number - msr: MSR number
val: Value written - val: Value written
failed: 1 if the access failed, otherwise 0 - failed: 1 if the access failed, otherwise 0
Trace RDPMC in kernel Trace RDPMC in kernel:
rdpmc rdpmc
The trace data can be post processed with the postprocess/decode_msr.py script The trace data can be post processed with the postprocess/decode_msr.py script::
cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace | decode_msr.py /usr/src/linux/include/asm/msr-index.h cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace | decode_msr.py /usr/src/linux/include/asm/msr-index.h
to add symbolic MSR names. to add symbolic MSR names.
...@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@ Linux Tracing Technologies ...@@ -16,3 +16,4 @@ Linux Tracing Technologies
events-kmem events-kmem
events-power events-power
events-nmi events-nmi
events-msr
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