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The hist trigger action code currently implements two essentially hard-coded pairs of 'actions' - onmax(), which tracks a variable and saves some event fields when a max is hit, and onmatch(), which is hard-coded to generate a synthetic event. These hardcoded pairs (track max/save fields and detect match/generate synthetic event) should really be decoupled into separate components that can then be arbitrarily combined. The first component of each pair (track max/detect match) is called a 'handler' in the new code, while the second component (save fields/generate synthetic event) is called an 'action' in this scheme. This change refactors the action code to reflect this split by adding two handlers, HANDLER_ONMATCH and HANDLER_ONMAX, along with two actions, ACTION_SAVE and ACTION_TRACE. The new code combines them to produce the existing ONMATCH/TRACE and ONMAX/SAVE functionality, but doesn't implement the other combinations now possible. Future patches will expand these to further useful cases, such as ONMAX/TRACE, as well as add additional handlers and actions such as ONCHANGE and SNAPSHOT. Also, add abbreviated documentation for handlers and actions to README. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/98bfdd48c1b4ff29fc5766442f99f5bc3c34b76b.1550100284.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.