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| author | Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> | 2009-10-07 18:27:48 -0400 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2009-10-12 19:24:05 +0200 |
| commit | 99329c44f28a1b7ac83beebfb4319e612042e319 (patch) | |
| tree | dd28ca39b7a0b9130cc513f313255a38a8cea204 /Documentation/trace | |
| parent | 405b2651e4bedf8d3932b64cad649b4d26b067f5 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-99329c44f28a1b7ac83beebfb4319e612042e319.zip op-kernel-dev-99329c44f28a1b7ac83beebfb4319e612042e319.tar.gz | |
tracing/kprobes: Remove '$ra' special variable
Remove '$ra' (return address) because it is already shown at the head of
each entry.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091007222748.1684.12711.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.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt index 33f5318..4208253 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - Kprobe-based Event Tracer + Kprobe-based Event Tracer ========================= Documentation is written by Masami Hiramatsu @@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events $sa : Fetch stack address. $aN : Fetch function argument. (N >= 0)(*) $rv : Fetch return value.(**) - $ra : Fetch return address.(**) +|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(***) NAME=FETCHARG: Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG. @@ -91,10 +90,10 @@ as below. 1st to 4th arguments as "myprobe" event. As this example shows, users can choose more familiar names for each arguments. - echo r:myretprobe do_sys_open $rv $ra >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events + echo r:myretprobe do_sys_open $rv >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events This sets a kretprobe on the return point of do_sys_open() function with -recording return value and return address as "myretprobe" event. +recording return value as "myretprobe" event. You can see the format of these events via /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/<EVENT>/format. @@ -138,11 +137,11 @@ events, you need to enable it. # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286875: myprobe: (do_sys_open+0x0/0xd6) dfd=3 filename=7fffd1ec4440 flags=8000 mode=0 - <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286878: myretprobe: (sys_openat+0xc/0xe <- do_sys_open) $rv=fffffffffffffffe $ra=ffffffff81367a3a + <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286878: myretprobe: (sys_openat+0xc/0xe <- do_sys_open) $rv=fffffffffffffffe <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286885: myprobe: (do_sys_open+0x0/0xd6) dfd=ffffff9c filename=40413c flags=8000 mode=1b6 - <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286915: myretprobe: (sys_open+0x1b/0x1d <- do_sys_open) $rv=3 $ra=ffffffff81367a3a + <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286915: myretprobe: (sys_open+0x1b/0x1d <- do_sys_open) $rv=3 <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286969: myprobe: (do_sys_open+0x0/0xd6) dfd=ffffff9c filename=4041c6 flags=98800 mode=10 - <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286976: myretprobe: (sys_open+0x1b/0x1d <- do_sys_open) $rv=3 $ra=ffffffff81367a3a + <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286976: myretprobe: (sys_open+0x1b/0x1d <- do_sys_open) $rv=3 Each line shows when the kernel hits an event, and <- SYMBOL means kernel |
