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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2009-08-13 16:35:26 -0400
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-08-27 02:32:28 +0200
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tracing: Generate names for each kprobe event automatically
Generate names for each kprobe event based on the probe point. (SYMBOL+offs or MEMADDR). Also remove generic k*probe event types because there is no user of those types. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Przemysław Pawełczyk <przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090813203526.31965.56672.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt3
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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
index c9c09b4..5e59e85 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events
p[:EVENT] SYMBOL[+offs|-offs]|MEMADDR [FETCHARGS] : Set a probe
r[:EVENT] SYMBOL[+0] [FETCHARGS] : Set a return probe
- EVENT : Event name.
+ EVENT : Event name. If omitted, the event name is generated
+ based on SYMBOL+offs or MEMADDR.
SYMBOL[+offs|-offs] : Symbol+offset where the probe is inserted.
MEMADDR : Address where the probe is inserted.
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