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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2009-09-10 19:53:14 -0400
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-09-11 04:18:58 +0200
commit2fba0c8867af47f6455490e7b59e512dd180c027 (patch)
treeb842519b73f0bed32dfab5bcf9b066622f01ff96 /Documentation/trace
parentad5cafcdb09c57008c990edd309c0a563b09f238 (diff)
tracing/kprobes: Fix probe offset to be unsigned
Prohibit user to specify negative offset from symbols. Since kprobe.offset is unsigned int, the offset must be always positive value. 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: <20090910235314.22412.64631.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.txt14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
index 3de751747164..db5531865648 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
@@ -25,15 +25,15 @@ probe events via /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/<EVENT>/filter.
Synopsis of kprobe_events
-------------------------
- p[:EVENT] SYMBOL[+offs|-offs]|MEMADDR [FETCHARGS] : Set a probe
- r[:EVENT] SYMBOL[+0] [FETCHARGS] : Set a return probe
+ p[:EVENT] SYMBOL[+offs]|MEMADDR [FETCHARGS] : Set a probe
+ r[:EVENT] SYMBOL[+0] [FETCHARGS] : Set a return probe
- 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.
+ 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.
+ MEMADDR : Address where the probe is inserted.
- FETCHARGS : Arguments. Each probe can have up to 128 args.
+ FETCHARGS : Arguments. Each probe can have up to 128 args.
%REG : Fetch register REG
sN : Fetch Nth entry of stack (N >= 0)
sa : Fetch stack address.