From 2ff2da660e784c99958e8ca5d9b10fbb49151693 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Goulet Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 11:41:46 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Fix: clarify man page lttng.1 Backported to stable-2.3 and 2.4. Fixes #689 Signed-off-by: David Goulet --- doc/man/lttng.1 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/man/lttng.1 b/doc/man/lttng.1 index e59a8706d..834d302bf 100644 --- a/doc/man/lttng.1 +++ b/doc/man/lttng.1 @@ -580,6 +580,11 @@ running applications can be found under columns "PID" and "LWP" of the '$ctx.vtid == 1234' .fi +Context information is available to all filters whether or not the add-context +command has been used to add it to the event's channel, as long as the context +field exists for that domain. For example, the filter examples given above will +never fail to link: no add-context is required for the event's channel. + .TP .BR "\-x, \-\-exclude LIST" Add exclusions to UST tracepoints: -- 2.34.1