tracing: add irq tracepoint documentation

Document irqs for the newly created docbook.

[ Impact: add documentation ]
Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: wcohen@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <73ff42be3420157667ec548e9b0e409c3cfad05f.1241107197.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Documentation/DocBook/tracepoint.tmpl

@@ -81,4 +81,9 @@
    </para>
   </chapter>
 
+  <chapter id="irq">
+   <title>IRQ</title>
+!Iinclude/trace/events/irq.h
+  </chapter>
+
 </book>

include/trace/events/irq.h

@@ -7,8 +7,16 @@
 #undef TRACE_SYSTEM
 #define TRACE_SYSTEM irq
 
-/*
- * Tracepoint for entry of interrupt handler:
+/**
+ * irq_handler_entry - called immediately before the irq action handler
+ * @irq: irq number
+ * @action: pointer to struct irqaction
+ *
+ * The struct irqaction pointed to by @action contains various
+ * information about the handler, including the device name,
+ * @action->name, and the device id, @action->dev_id. When used in
+ * conjunction with the irq_handler_exit tracepoint, we can figure
+ * out irq handler latencies.
  */
 TRACE_EVENT(irq_handler_entry,
 
@@ -29,8 +37,16 @@ TRACE_EVENT(irq_handler_entry,
 	TP_printk("irq=%d handler=%s", __entry->irq, __get_str(name))
 );
 
-/*
- * Tracepoint for return of an interrupt handler:
+/**
+ * irq_handler_exit - called immediately after the irq action handler returns
+ * @irq: irq number
+ * @action: pointer to struct irqaction
+ * @ret: return value
+ *
+ * If the @ret value is set to IRQ_HANDLED, then we know that the corresponding
+ * @action->handler scuccessully handled this irq. Otherwise, the irq might be
+ * a shared irq line, or the irq was not handled successfully. Can be used in
+ * conjunction with the irq_handler_entry to understand irq handler latencies.
  */
 TRACE_EVENT(irq_handler_exit,
 
@@ -52,6 +68,17 @@ TRACE_EVENT(irq_handler_exit,
 		  __entry->irq, __entry->ret ? "handled" : "unhandled")
 );
 
+/**
+ * softirq_entry - called immediately before the softirq handler
+ * @h: pointer to struct softirq_action
+ * @vec: pointer to first struct softirq_action in softirq_vec array
+ *
+ * The @h parameter, contains a pointer to the struct softirq_action
+ * which has a pointer to the action handler that is called. By subtracting
+ * the @vec pointer from the @h pointer, we can determine the softirq
+ * number. Also, when used in combination with the softirq_exit tracepoint
+ * we can determine the softirq latency.
+ */
 TRACE_EVENT(softirq_entry,
 
 	TP_PROTO(struct softirq_action *h, struct softirq_action *vec),
@@ -71,6 +98,17 @@ TRACE_EVENT(softirq_entry,
 	TP_printk("softirq=%d action=%s", __entry->vec, __get_str(name))
 );
 
+/**
+ * softirq_exit - called immediately after the softirq handler returns
+ * @h: pointer to struct softirq_action
+ * @vec: pointer to first struct softirq_action in softirq_vec array
+ *
+ * The @h parameter contains a pointer to the struct softirq_action
+ * that has handled the softirq. By subtracting the @vec pointer from
+ * the @h pointer, we can determine the softirq number. Also, when used in
+ * combination with the softirq_entry tracepoint we can determine the softirq
+ * latency.
+ */
 TRACE_EVENT(softirq_exit,
 
 	TP_PROTO(struct softirq_action *h, struct softirq_action *vec),