tracing: Add new trace_marker_raw

A new file is created:

 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_marker_raw

This allows for appications to create data structures and write the binary
data directly into it, and then read the trace data out from trace_pipe_raw
into the same type of data structure. This saves on converting numbers into
ASCII that would be required by trace_marker.

Suggested-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
index 1bc66c1..6c374c5 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
@@ -396,6 +396,12 @@ of ftrace. Here is a list of some of the key files:
 
 		trace_fd = open("trace_marker", WR_ONLY);
 
+  trace_marker_raw:
+
+	This is similar to trace_marker above, but is meant for for binary data
+	to be written to it, where a tool can be used to parse the data
+	from trace_pipe_raw.
+
   uprobe_events:
  
 	Add dynamic tracepoints in programs.