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It has been pointed out to me many times that it is useful to be able to switch off AUX records to save the bandwidth for records that actually matter, for example, in AUX overwrite mode. The usefulness of PERF_RECORD_AUX is in some of its flags, like the TRUNCATED flag that tells the decoder where exactly gaps in the trace are. The OVERWRITE flag, on the other hand will be set on every single record in overwrite mode. However, a PERF_RECORD_AUX[flags=OVERWRITE] is generated on every target task's sched_out, which over time adds up to a lot of useless information. If any folks out there have userspace that depends on a constant stream of OVERWRITE records for a good reason, they'll have to let us know. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Markus T Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180404145323.28651-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.