docs: ftrace: Specifies when buffers get clear
authorFrank A. Cancio Bello <frank@generalsoftwareinc.com>
Wed, 18 Dec 2019 19:15:53 +0000 (14:15 -0500)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:18:33 +0000 (09:18 -0700)
commitd693b2883c0b9b261d2c490a9933e703359b4542
tree1a2602734638a47c9b47764d5282a8fa03569f95
parentd1eef1c619749b2a57e514a3fa67d9a516ffa919
docs: ftrace: Specifies when buffers get clear

Clarify a few places where the ring buffer and the "snapshot" buffer
are cleared as a side effect of an operation.

This will avoid users lost of tracing data because of these so far
undocumented behavior.

Signed-off-by: Frank A. Cancio Bello <frank@generalsoftwareinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191218191553.q4lwyxmquvtjzjfz@frank-laptop
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst