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-# Tracing
-
-This document describes how the event tracing subsystem works in tor so
-developers can add events to the code base but also hook them to an event
-tracing framework.
-
-## Basics
-
-Event tracing is separated in two concepts, trace events and a tracer. The
-tracing subsystem can be found in `src/trace`. The `events.h` header file is
-the main file that maps the different tracers to trace events.
-
-### Events
-
-A trace event is basically a function from which we can pass any data that
-we want to collect. In addition, we specify a context for the event such as
-a subsystem and an event name.
-
-A trace event in tor has the following standard format:
-
-	tor_trace(subsystem, event\_name, args...)
-
-The `subsystem` parameter is the name of the subsytem the trace event is in.
-For example that could be "scheduler" or "vote" or "hs". The idea is to add
-some context to the event so when we collect them we know where it's coming
-from. The `event_name` is the name of the event which helps a lot with
-adding some semantic to the event. Finally, `args` is any number of
-arguments we want to collect.
-
-Here is an example of a possible tracepoint in main():
-
-	tor_trace(main, init_phase, argc)
-
-The above is a tracepoint in the `main` subsystem with `init_phase` as the
-event name and the `int argc` is passed to the event as well.
-
-How `argc` is collected or used has nothing to do with the instrumentation
-(adding trace events to the code). It is the work of the tracer so this is why
-the trace events and collection framework (tracer) are decoupled. You _can_
-have trace events without a tracer.
-
-### Tracer
-
-In `src/trace/events.h`, we map the `tor_trace()` function to the right
-tracer. A tracer support is only enabled at compile time. For instance, the
-file `src/trace/debug.h` contains the mapping of the generic tracing function
-`tor_trace()` to the `log_debug()` function. More specialized function can be
-mapped depending on the tracepoint.
-
-## Build System
-
-This section describes how it is integrated into the build system of tor.
-
-By default, every tracing events are disabled in tor that is `tor_trace()`
-is a NOP.
-
-To enable a tracer, there is a configure option on the form of:
-
-	--enable-tracing-<tracer>
-
-We have an option that will send every trace events to a `log_debug()` (as
-mentionned above) which will print you the subsystem and name of the event but
-not the arguments for technical reasons. This is useful if you want to quickly
-see if your trace event is being hit or well written. To do so, use this
-configure option:
-
-	--enable-tracing-debug
-
-## Instrument Tor
-
-This is pretty easy. Let's say you want to add a trace event in
-`src/feature/rend/rendcache.c`, you only have to add this include statement:
-
-	#include "trace/events.h"
-
-Once done, you can add as many as you want `tor_trace()` that you need.
-Please use the right subsystem (here it would be `hs`) and a unique name that
-tells what the event is for. For example:
-
-	tor_trace(hs, store_desc_as_client, desc, desc_id);
-
-If you look in `src/trace/events.h`, you'll see that if tracing is enabled it
-will be mapped to a function called:
-
-	tor_trace_hs_store_desc_as_client(desc, desc_id)
-
-And the point of all this is for that function to be defined in a new file
-that you might want to add named `src/trace/hs.{c|h}` which would defined how
-to collect the data for the `tor_trace_hs_store_desc_as_client()` function
-like for instance sending it to a `log_debug()` or do more complex operations
-or use a userspace tracer like LTTng (https://lttng.org).