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authorDave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>2009-03-16 12:15:51 -0400
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<title>Context Functions</title>
<para>
The context functions provide additional information about where
- the event occurred.
- These functions can provide information such as a backtrace
+ an event occurred.
+ These functions can provide information such as a backtrace to
where the event occured
and the current register values for the processor.
</para>
@@ -132,22 +132,26 @@
<para>
Each timestamp function returns a value to indicate when
a function is executed.
- Thus, these returned values can be used to indicate
- when an event occurs, provide an ordering for events, or compute
- the amount of time elapsed between to time stamps.
+ These returned values can then be used to indicate
+ when an event occurred, provide an ordering for events, or compute
+ the amount of time elapsed between two time stamps.
</para>
!Itapset/timestamp.stp
</chapter>
<chapter id="memory_stp">
<title>Memory Tapset</title>
+ <para>
+ This family of probe points is used to probe memory-related events.
+ It contains the following probe points:
+ </para>
!Itapset/memory.stp
</chapter>
<chapter id="iosched.stp">
<title>IO Scheduler Tapset</title>
<para>
- This family of probe points is used to probe the IO scheduler activities.
+ This family of probe points is used to probe IO scheduler activities.
It contains the following probe points:
</para>
!Itapset/ioscheduler.stp
@@ -156,7 +160,7 @@
<chapter id="scsi.stp">
<title>SCSI Tapset</title>
<para>
- This family of probe points is used to probe the SCSI activities.
+ This family of probe points is used to probe SCSI activities.
It contains the following probe points:
</para>
!Itapset/scsi.stp
@@ -203,7 +207,7 @@
<chapter id="process.stp">
<title>Process Tapset</title>
<para>
- This family of probe points is used to probe the process activities.
+ This family of probe points is used to probe process-related activities.
It contains the following probe points:
</para>
!Itapset/process.stp