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| author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2007-11-14 19:53:21 -0500 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2007-11-19 12:25:56 -0500 |
| commit | b4d2730a0dda91a43c81a02f5225f5d536cabb09 (patch) | |
| tree | de9f29b56bfb0545b00a62c22c4800b770da84c0 /Documentation/acpi | |
| parent | 4169c45f179e285feac6bcf25f4bd0db6b109bab (diff) | |
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ACPI: document method tracing hooks
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/method-tracing.txt b/Documentation/acpi/method-tracing.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f6efb1ea559a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/acpi/method-tracing.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +/sys/module/acpi/parameters/: + +trace_method_name + The AML method name that the user wants to trace + +trace_debug_layer + The temporary debug_layer used when tracing the method. + Using 0xffffffff by default if it is 0. + +trace_debug_level + The temporary debug_level used when tracing the method. + Using 0x00ffffff by default if it is 0. + +trace_state + The status of the tracing feature. + + "enabled" means this feature is enabled + and the AML method is traced every time it's executed. + + "1" means this feature is enabled and the AML method + will only be traced during the next execution. + + "disabled" means this feature is disabled. + Users can enable/disable this debug tracing feature by + "echo string > /sys/module/acpi/parameters/trace_state". + "string" should be one of "enable", "disable" and "1". |