[lttng-dev] [PATCH lttng-tools 6/6] Manpage for the regenerate statedump command
Julien Desfossez
jdesfossez at efficios.com
Thu Jun 30 16:36:34 UTC 2016
Signed-off-by: Julien Desfossez <jdesfossez at efficios.com>
---
doc/man/lttng-regenerate.1.txt | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/man/lttng-regenerate.1.txt b/doc/man/lttng-regenerate.1.txt
index dbbfa4d..80bae20 100644
--- a/doc/man/lttng-regenerate.1.txt
+++ b/doc/man/lttng-regenerate.1.txt
@@ -14,12 +14,19 @@ Regenerate the metadata of a session
[verse]
*lttng* ['linkgenoptions:(GENERAL OPTIONS)'] *regenerate metadata* [option:--session='SESSION']
+Regenerate the statedump of a session
+
+[verse]
+*lttng* ['linkgenoptions:(GENERAL OPTIONS)'] *regenerate statedump* [option:--session='SESSION']
+
DESCRIPTION
-----------
The `lttng regenerate` command manages a tracing session's data regeneration
options.
-As of this version, only the `metadata` command's action is available.
+As of this version, the `metadata` and `statedump` command's action are
+available.
+
Regenerating a tracing session's metadata can be used to
resample the offset between the system's monotonic clock and
the wall-clock time.
@@ -32,12 +39,16 @@ traced before its wall time is NTP-corrected. Regenerating the tracing
session's metadata ensures that trace viewers can accurately determine
the events time relative to Unix Epoch.
+Regenerating a tracing session's statedump can be used to collect up-to-date
+statedump informations during the trace session. This is particularly useful in
+snapshot or trace-file rotation modes where the statedump information may be
+lost.
include::common-cmd-options-head.txt[]
option:-s, option:--session='SESSION'::
- Manage the metadata generation of the tracing session named 'SESSION'
+ Manage the data regeneration of the tracing session named 'SESSION'
instead of the current tracing session.
--
1.9.1
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