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    doc: mmiotrace.txt, buffer size control change · f9aa28ad
    Pekka Paalanen authored
    Impact: prevents confusing the user when buffer size is inadequate
    
    The tracing framework offers a resizeable buffer, which mmiotrace uses
    to record events. If the buffer is full, the following events will be
    lost. Events should not be lost, so the documentation instructs the user
    to increase the buffer size. The buffer size is set via a debugfs file.
    
    Mmiotrace documentation was not updated the same time the debugfs file
    was changed. The old file was tracing/trace_entries and first contained
    the number of entries the buffer had space for, per cpu. Nowadays this
    file is replaced with the file tracing/buffer_size_kb, which tells the
    amount of memory reserved for the buffer, per cpu, in kilobytes.
    
    Previously, a flag had to be toggled via the debugfs file
    tracing/tracing_enabled when the buffer size was changed. This is no
    longer necessary.
    
    The mmiotrace documentation is updated to reflect the current state of
    the tracing framework.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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