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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst b/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst index f93333524a44..b71e09f745c3 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst @@ -1776,6 +1776,24 @@ consisting of the name of the new event along with one or more variables and their types, which can be any valid field type, separated by semicolons, to the tracing/synthetic_events file. +See synth_field_size() for available types. + +If field_name contains [n], the field is considered to be a static array. + +If field_names contains[] (no subscript), the field is considered to +be a dynamic array, which will only take as much space in the event as +is required to hold the array. + +A string field can be specified using either the static notation: + + char name[32]; + +Or the dynamic: + + char name[]; + +The size limit for either is 256. + For instance, the following creates a new event named 'wakeup_latency' with 3 fields: lat, pid, and prio. Each of those fields is simply a variable reference to a variable on another event:: |