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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	  Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	  Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	systemtap@sources.redhat.com,   ltt-dev@shafik.org,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers Documentation - fix
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070216040538.GC16075@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070215174500.2b1b3bb9.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Linux Kernel Markers Documentation - fix

Fixes from Randy's comments.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>

--- a/Documentation/marker.txt
+++ b/Documentation/marker.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ code is reached.
 
 They can be used for tracing (LTTng, LKET over SystemTAP), overall performance
 accounting (SystemTAP). They could also be used to implement
-efficient hooks for SELinux or any other subsystem the would have this
+efficient hooks for SELinux or any other subsystem that would have this
 kind of need.
 
 Using the markers for system audit (SELinux) would require to pass a
@@ -30,8 +30,9 @@ variable by address that would be later checked by the marked routine.
 MARK(subsystem_event, "%d %s %p[struct task_struct]",
   someint, somestring, current);
 Where :
-- Subsystem is the name of your subsystem.
-- event is the name of the event to mark.
+- subsystem_event is an identifier unique to your event
+    - subsystem is the name of your subsystem.
+    - event is the name of the event to mark.
 - "%d %s %p[struct task_struct]" is the formatted string for (printk-style).
 - someint is an integer.
 - somestring is a char pointer.
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ Where :
 
 The expression %p[struct task_struct] is a suggested marker definition
 standard that could eventually be used for pointer type checking in
-sparse. The brackets contain the type to which the pointer refer.
+sparse. The brackets contain the type to which the pointer refers.
 
 The marker mechanism supports multiple instances of the same marker.
 Markers can be put in inline functions, inlined static functions and
@@ -104,8 +105,8 @@ static int __init probe_init(void)
 {
 	int result;
 	result = marker_set_probe("subsystem_event",
-			FS_CLOSE_FORMAT,
-			probe_fs_close);
+			SUBSYSTEM_EVENT_FORMAT,
+			probe_subsystem_event);
 	if (!result)
 		goto cleanup;
 	return 0;
-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Candidate, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F  BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-16  4:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-11 20:13 [PATCH 00/05] Linux Kernel Markers - kernel 2.6.20 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-02-11 20:03 ` [PATCH 01/05] Linux Kernel Markers : Kconfig menus Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-02-11 20:03 ` [PATCH 03/05] Linux Kernel Markers : powerpc optimization Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-02-11 20:08 ` [PATCH 02/05] Linux Kernel Markers, architecture independant code Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-02-15  7:22   ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-15 19:12     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-02-11 20:13 ` [PATCH 04/05] Linux Kernel Markers : i386 optimization Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-02-11 20:44 ` [PATCH 05/05] Linux Kernel Markers, non optimized architectures Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-02-15  7:17   ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-15 19:09     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-02-16 20:10       ` Karim Yaghmour
2007-02-16 23:38         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-02-21 19:53           ` Karim Yaghmour
2007-02-21 20:51             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-02-21 21:50               ` Karim Yaghmour
2007-02-22  0:18                 ` [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers - cleanup Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-02-15  7:12 ` [PATCH 00/05] Linux Kernel Markers - kernel 2.6.20 Andrew Morton
2007-02-15 15:29   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-02-15 22:19     ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-15 22:36       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-02-15 23:15       ` Vara Prasad
2007-02-16  1:34   ` [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers Documentation Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-02-16  1:51     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-02-16  4:01       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-02-16  4:05       ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2007-02-16  1:37   ` [PATCH 00/05] Linux Kernel Markers - kernel 2.6.20 Mathieu Desnoyers

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