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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst index 272464bb7c60..2b74f96d09d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst @@ -810,6 +810,12 @@ Here is the list of current tracers that may be configured. to draw a graph of function calls similar to C code source. + Note that the function graph calculates the timings of when the + function starts and returns internally and for each instance. If + there are two instances that run function graph tracer and traces + the same functions, the length of the timings may be slightly off as + each read the timestamp separately and not at the same time. + "blk" The block tracer. The tracer used by the blktrace user |