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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-02-25 03:03:52 +0100
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-02-25 04:07:50 +0100
commitc2fbaa4b489b738cd9e7666edfeceaaa38e71c9f (patch)
treecf3de68faeea1b226ecc2a1c084b96c05e5cc778 /tools
parentcff68e582237cae3cf456f01153202175961dfbe (diff)
perf/scripts: Tag syscall_name helper as not yet available
syscall_name() helper, which resolves a syscall arch number to its name, is not yet available as we first need to implement event injection for it to work. Remove it from the documentation or tag its references as unavailable yet. Once it's implemented, we can just revert the current patch. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Keiichi KII <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-perl.txt1
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-python.txt7
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-perl.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-perl.txt
index d2206c3c7aa..d729cee8d98 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-perl.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-perl.txt
@@ -213,7 +213,6 @@ Various utility functions for use with perf trace:
nsecs_nsecs($nsecs) - returns nsecs remainder given nsecs
nsecs_str($nsecs) - returns printable string in the form secs.nsecs
avg($total, $n) - returns average given a sum and a total number of values
- syscall_name($id) - returns the syscall name for the specified syscall_nr
SEE ALSO
--------
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-python.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-python.txt
index 119d5deba1d..a241aca7718 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-python.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-trace-python.txt
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ scripts listed by that command.
The syscall-counts script is a simple script, but demonstrates all the
basic ideas necessary to create a useful script. Here's an example
-of its output:
+of its output (syscall names are not yet supported, they will appear
+as numbers):
----
syscall events:
@@ -270,7 +271,8 @@ calling the print_syscall_totals() function from the trace_end()
handler called at the end of script processing.
The final script producing the output shown above is shown in its
-entirety below:
+entirety below (syscall_name() helper is not yet available, you can
+only deal with id's for now):
----
import os
@@ -617,7 +619,6 @@ Various utility functions for use with perf trace:
nsecs_nsecs(nsecs) - returns nsecs remainder given nsecs
nsecs_str(nsecs) - returns printable string in the form secs.nsecs
avg(total, n) - returns average given a sum and a total number of values
- syscall_name(id) - returns the syscall name for the specified syscall_nr
SEE ALSO
--------