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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2009-09-10 19:53:53 -0400
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-09-17 04:03:24 +0200
commitf52487e9c0041842eeb77c6c48774414b1cede08 (patch)
tree30dc710a8a9823d41dbf83e8bb0acd264917fc96 /Documentation/trace
parent6e9f23d1619f7badaf9090dac09e86a22d6061d8 (diff)
downloadlinux-f52487e9c0041842eeb77c6c48774414b1cede08.tar.gz
tracing/kprobes: Support custom subsystem for each kprobe event
Support specifying a custom subsystem(group) for each kprobe event.
This allows users to create new group to control several probes
at once, or add events to existing groups as additional tracepoints.

New synopsis:
 p[:[subsys/]event-name] KADDR|KSYM[+offs] [ARGS]

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090910235353.22412.15149.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/trace')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
index a849889e6092..6521681e7838 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
@@ -25,9 +25,10 @@ probe events via /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/<EVENT>/filter.
 
 Synopsis of kprobe_events
 -------------------------
-  p[:EVENT] SYMBOL[+offs]|MEMADDR [FETCHARGS]	: Set a probe
-  r[:EVENT] SYMBOL[+0] [FETCHARGS]		: Set a return probe
+  p[:[GRP/]EVENT] SYMBOL[+offs]|MEMADDR [FETCHARGS]	: Set a probe
+  r[:[GRP/]EVENT] SYMBOL[+0] [FETCHARGS]		: Set a return probe
 
+ GRP		: Group name. If omitted, use "kprobes" for it.
  EVENT		: Event name. If omitted, the event name is generated
 		  based on SYMBOL+offs or MEMADDR.
  SYMBOL[+offs]	: Symbol+offset where the probe is inserted.