tracing: Add alternative synthetic event trace action syntax
authorTom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 23:42:50 +0000 (17:42 -0600)
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 18:51:07 +0000 (13:51 -0500)
commite91eefd731d933194940805bb1f75a4972dc607c
tree1616d32c7dbc973debf0ef1584c03172ae37d823
parentff0d35e2e1c7936a4938d5ce5851e0333cd9dce6
tracing: Add alternative synthetic event trace action syntax

Add a 'trace(synthetic_event_name, params)' alternative to
synthetic_event_name(params).

Currently, the syntax used for generating synthetic events is to
invoke synthetic_event_name(params) i.e. use the synthetic event name
as a function call.

Users requested a new form that more explicitly shows that the
synthetic event is in effect being traced.  In this version, a new
'trace()' keyword is used, and the synthetic event name is passed in
as the first argument.

In addition, for the sake of consistency with other actions, change
the documention to emphasize the trace() form over the function-call
form, which remains documented as equivalent.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d082773e50232a001480cf837679a1e01c1a2eb7.1550100284.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Documentation/trace/histogram.rst
kernel/trace/trace.c
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c