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Also, add reference tracing(7) from hwt(4).

Event: Berlin 2025 Hackathon

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0mp requested review of this revision.Jul 12 2025, 9:43 AM
share/man/man7/tracing.7
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I think that we should either place this into a new "Hardware-accelerated tracing" subsection or rename the "Hardware Counters" subsection in a way that covers both techonolgies. Hardware tracing units and performance counters work in different ways and have different use cases (i.e., profiling vs tracing), so we should definitely make a distinction here.

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Thanks, Bojan!

share/man/man7/tracing.7
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I'll add a new section. Thanks!

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That's a copy from hwt(4), so we might want to update that manual as well if desired.

share/man/man7/tracing.7
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Okay. So if you're running current, look at apropos freebsd. I've spent a ton of effort over the last two years to try and scope it to broad concept overview manuals. This one should get on there.

0mp marked an inline comment as done.Jul 12 2025, 4:02 PM
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0mp marked an inline comment as done.Jul 12 2025, 4:03 PM
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jul 13 2025, 3:08 PM
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