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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt index f7ffe7d599..a045dbe422 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ yields ------------ $ cat ~/log.event -{"event":"version","sid":"sid":"20190408T191610.507018Z-H9b68c35f-P000059a8","thread":"main","time":"2019-01-16T17:28:42.620713Z","file":"common-main.c","line":38,"evt":"1","exe":"2.20.1.155.g426c96fcdb"} +{"event":"version","sid":"sid":"20190408T191610.507018Z-H9b68c35f-P000059a8","thread":"main","time":"2019-01-16T17:28:42.620713Z","file":"common-main.c","line":38,"evt":"2","exe":"2.20.1.155.g426c96fcdb"} {"event":"start","sid":"20190408T191610.507018Z-H9b68c35f-P000059a8","thread":"main","time":"2019-01-16T17:28:42.621027Z","file":"common-main.c","line":39,"t_abs":0.001173,"argv":["git","version"]} {"event":"cmd_name","sid":"20190408T191610.507018Z-H9b68c35f-P000059a8","thread":"main","time":"2019-01-16T17:28:42.621122Z","file":"git.c","line":432,"name":"version","hierarchy":"version"} {"event":"exit","sid":"20190408T191610.507018Z-H9b68c35f-P000059a8","thread":"main","time":"2019-01-16T17:28:42.621236Z","file":"git.c","line":662,"t_abs":0.001227,"code":0} @@ -142,10 +142,9 @@ system or global config value to one of the following: include::../trace2-target-values.txt[] -If the target already exists and is a directory, the traces will be -written to files (one per process) underneath the given directory. They -will be named according to the last component of the SID (optionally -followed by a counter to avoid filename collisions). +When trace files are written to a target directory, they will be named according +to the last component of the SID (optionally followed by a counter to avoid +filename collisions). == Trace2 API @@ -605,17 +604,35 @@ only present on the "start" and "atexit" events. ==== Event-Specific Key/Value Pairs `"version"`:: - This event gives the version of the executable and the EVENT format. + This event gives the version of the executable and the EVENT format. It + should always be the first event in a trace session. The EVENT format + version will be incremented if new event types are added, if existing + fields are removed, or if there are significant changes in + interpretation of existing events or fields. Smaller changes, such as + adding a new field to an existing event, will not require an increment + to the EVENT format version. + ------------ { "event":"version", ... - "evt":"1", # EVENT format version + "evt":"2", # EVENT format version "exe":"2.20.1.155.g426c96fcdb" # git version } ------------ +`"discard"`:: + This event is written to the git-trace2-discard sentinel file if there + are too many files in the target trace directory (see the + trace2.maxFiles config option). ++ +------------ +{ + "event":"discard", + ... +} +------------ + `"start"`:: This event contains the complete argv received by main(). + @@ -668,7 +685,7 @@ completed.) "event":"signal", ... "t_abs":0.001227, # elapsed time in seconds - "signal":13 # SIGTERM, SIGINT, etc. + "signo":13 # SIGTERM, SIGINT, etc. } ------------ |