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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0
+
+.. Copyright (C) 2019 embedded brains GmbH
+.. Copyright (C) 2019 Sebastian Huber
+
+.. _EventRecording:
+
+Event Recording
+===============
+
+The `event recording` support focuses on the recording of high frequency
+events such as
+
+     * thread switches,
+     * thread queue enqueue and surrender,
+     * interrupt entry and exit,
+     * heap/workspace memory allocate/free,
+     * UMA zone allocate/free,
+     * Ethernet packet input/output, and
+     * etc.
+
+There is a fixed set of 512 system reserved and 512 user defined events which
+are identified by an event number (:c:type:`rtems_record_event`).
+
+The event recording support allows post-mortem analysis in fatal error
+handlers, e.g. the last events are in the record buffers, the newest event
+overwrites the oldest event.  It is possible to detect record buffer overflows
+for consumers that expect a continuous stream of events, e.g. to display the
+system state changes in real-time.
+
+The implementation supports high-end SMP machines (more than 1GHz processor
+frequency, more than four processors).  It uses per-processor ring buffers to
+record the events.  Synchronization is done without atomic read-modify-write
+operations.  The CPU counter is used to get the time of events. It is combined
+with periodic uptime events to synchronize it with the monotonic system clock
+(:c:macro:`CLOCK_MONOTONIC`).
+
+The application must configure the event recording via the configuration options
+:c:macro:`CONFIGURE_RECORD_PER_PROCESSOR_ITEMS` and
+:c:macro:`CONFIGURE_RECORD_EXTENSIONS_ENABLED`.
+
+Events can be recorded for example with the :c:func:`rtems_record_produce`
+function.
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+    #include <rtems/record.h>
+
+    void f( void )
+    {
+      rtems_record_produce( RTEMS_RECORD_USER( 0 ), 123 );
+    }
+
+Recorded events can be sent to a host computer with a very simple record server
+started by :c:func:`rtems_record_start_server` via a TCP connection.
+
+On the host computer you may use the command line tool :file:`rtems-record` to
+get recorded events from the record server running on the target system.