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| author | Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> | 2016-08-18 17:58:15 +0900 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2016-08-23 15:39:57 -0300 |
| commit | 864256255597aad86abcecbe6c53da8852ded15b (patch) | |
| tree | 67e006d249e32142761cf5b1988a9afd59072f46 /kernel/trace | |
| parent | 17ce3dc7e5a0e4796cc7838d1f7b2531d0bca130 (diff) | |
ftrace: probe: Add README entries for k/uprobe-events
Add README entries for kprobe-events and uprobe-events.
This allows user to check what options can be acceptable
for running kernel.
E.g. perf tools can choose correct types for the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147151069524.12957.12957179170304055028.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index dade4c9559cc..1e2ce3b52e51 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -4123,6 +4123,30 @@ static const char readme_msg[] = "\t\t\t traces\n" #endif #endif /* CONFIG_STACK_TRACER */ +#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT + " kprobe_events\t\t- Add/remove/show the kernel dynamic events\n" + "\t\t\t Write into this file to define/undefine new trace events.\n" +#endif +#ifdef CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT + " uprobe_events\t\t- Add/remove/show the userspace dynamic events\n" + "\t\t\t Write into this file to define/undefine new trace events.\n" +#endif +#if defined(CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT) || defined(CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT) + "\t accepts: event-definitions (one definition per line)\n" + "\t Format: p|r[:[<group>/]<event>] <place> [<args>]\n" + "\t -:[<group>/]<event>\n" +#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT + "\t place: [<module>:]<symbol>[+<offset>]|<memaddr>\n" +#endif +#ifdef CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT + "\t place: <path>:<offset>\n" +#endif + "\t args: <name>=fetcharg[:type]\n" + "\t fetcharg: %<register>, @<address>, @<symbol>[+|-<offset>],\n" + "\t $stack<index>, $stack, $retval, $comm\n" + "\t type: s8/16/32/64, u8/16/32/64, x8/16/32/64, string,\n" + "\t b<bit-width>@<bit-offset>/<container-size>\n" +#endif " events/\t\t- Directory containing all trace event subsystems:\n" " enable\t\t- Write 0/1 to enable/disable tracing of all events\n" " events/<system>/\t- Directory containing all trace events for <system>:\n" |