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authorBrian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>2016-05-23 23:37:58 +0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2016-06-03 22:32:58 +0300
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downloadlinux-d81749ea8b1537a382535983a269fc69c696fa0e.tar.xz
doc: clarify that trace_events= takes a comma-separated list
It took me browsing through the source code to determine that I was, indeed, using the wrong delimiter in my command lines. So I might as well document it for the next person. Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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@@ -3992,8 +3992,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
trace_event=[event-list]
[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
- to facilitate early boot debugging.
- See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
+ to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
+ comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
+ also Documentation/trace/events.txt
trace_options=[option-list]
[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.