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author | Jason M. Bills <jason.m.bills@linux.intel.com> | 2020-12-08 00:38:17 +0300 |
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committer | Jason M. Bills <jason.m.bills@linux.intel.com> | 2020-12-08 00:38:17 +0300 |
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Merge tag '0.26' of ssh://git-amr-1.devtools.intel.com:29418/openbmc-openbmc into update
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diff --git a/poky/documentation/profile-manual/profile-manual-arch.rst b/poky/documentation/profile-manual/profile-manual-arch.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9e1e400e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/poky/documentation/profile-manual/profile-manual-arch.rst @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-2.0-UK + +************************************************************* +Overall Architecture of the Linux Tracing and Profiling Tools +************************************************************* + +Architecture of the Tracing and Profiling Tools +=============================================== + +It may seem surprising to see a section covering an 'overall +architecture' for what seems to be a random collection of tracing tools +that together make up the Linux tracing and profiling space. The fact +is, however, that in recent years this seemingly disparate set of tools +has started to converge on a 'core' set of underlying mechanisms: + +- static tracepoints +- dynamic tracepoints + + - kprobes + - uprobes + +- the perf_events subsystem +- debugfs + +.. admonition:: Tying it Together + + Rather than enumerating here how each tool makes use of these common + mechanisms, textboxes like this will make note of the specific usages + in each tool as they come up in the course of the text. |