documentation: Add links to TRACE_EVENT documentation

documentation: Add links to TRACE_EVENT documentation

Existing tracepoint documentation doesn't mention the popular
TRACE_EVENT
macro. Since an excellent series of articles on proper usage already
exists, respective links are added to the existing documentation.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Raspl <raspl@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt b/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt
index ac4170dd0f24..6b018b53177a 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt
@@ -114,3 +114,8 @@ core kernel image or in modules.
 If the tracepoint has to be used in kernel modules, an
 EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL_GPL() or EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL() can be
 used to export the defined tracepoints.
+
+Note: The convenience macro TRACE_EVENT provides an alternative way to
+      define tracepoints. Check http://lwn.net/Articles/379903,
+      http://lwn.net/Articles/381064 and http://lwn.net/Articles/383362
+      for a series of articles with more details.