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+		ftrace - Function Tracer
+		========================
+
+Copyright 2008 Red Hat Inc.
+Author: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
+
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+Ftrace is an internal tracer designed to help out developers and
+designers of systems to find what is going on inside the kernel.
+It can be used for debugging or analyzing latencies and performance
+issues that take place outside of user-space.
+
+Although ftrace is the function tracer, it also includes an
+infrastructure that allows for other types of tracing. Some of the
+tracers that are currently in ftrace is a tracer to trace
+context switches, the time it takes for a high priority task to
+run after it was woken up, the time interrupts are disabled, and
+more.
+
+
+The File System
+---------------
+
+Ftrace uses the debugfs file system to hold the control files as well
+as the files to display output.
+
+To mount the debugfs system:
+
+  # mkdir /debug
+  # mount -t debugfs nodev /debug
+
+
+That's it! (assuming that you have ftrace configured into your kernel)
+
+After mounting the debugfs, you can see a directory called
+"tracing".  This directory contains the control and output files
+of ftrace. Here is a list of some of the key files:
+
+
+ Note: all time values are in microseconds.
+
+  current_tracer : This is used to set or display the current tracer
+		that is configured.
+
+  available_tracers : This holds the different types of tracers that
+		has been compiled into the kernel. The tracers
+		listed here can be configured by echoing in their
+		name into current_tracer.
+
+  tracing_enabled : This sets or displays whether the current_tracer
+		is activated and tracing or not. Echo 0 into this
+		file to disable the tracer or 1 (or non-zero) to
+		enable it.
+
+  trace : This file holds the output of the trace in a human readable
+		format.
+
+  latency_trace : This file shows the same trace but the information
+		is organized more to display possible latencies
+		in the system.
+
+  trace_pipe : The output is the same as the "trace" file but this
+		file is meant to be streamed with live tracing.
+		Reads from this file will block until new data
+		is retrieved. Unlike the "trace" and "latency_trace"
+		files, this file is a consumer. This means reading
+		from this file causes sequential reads to display
+		more current data. Once data is read from this