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* mm-tracepoint: fix documentation and examplesKonstantin Khlebnikov2012-01-111-20/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | We renamed the page-free mm tracepoints. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Documentation: Update tracepoint-analysis.txtRandy Dunlap2009-12-201-30/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | Fix grammar, spelling, punctuation, hyphenation, section numbering. Tell what PCL means. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <4B2C0D70.4030707@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing, documentation: add a document describing how to do some performance ↵Mel Gorman2009-09-221-0/+327
analysis with tracepoints The documentation for ftrace, events and tracepoints is pretty extensive. Similarly, the perf PCL tools help files --help are there and the code simple enough to figure out what much of the switches mean. However, pulling the discrete bits and pieces together and translating that into "how do I solve a problem" requires a fair amount of imagination. This patch adds a simple document intended to get someone started on the 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>