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  84 >&#13;This chapter describes how to use the Linux Trace Toolkit reading context, a
  85 data structure that is given as call data parameter of the modules'callbacks.
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  88 >&#13;Linux Trace Toolkit Viewer provides a backend that reads the traces. In combines
  89 them in tracesets. A trace is an abstaction over many tracefiles, one per CPU.
  90 LTTV reads the whole trace together, providing the events to modules by calling
  91 their pre-registered hook lists in a chronological order.
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