tracing/kprobes: Rename Kprobe-tracer to kprobe-event

Rename Kprobes-based event tracer to kprobes-based tracing event
(kprobe-event), since it is not a tracer but an extensible
tracing event interface.

This also changes CONFIG_KPROBE_TRACER to CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT
and sets it y by default.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091104001247.3454.14131.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

4 files changed, 31 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
index 15415243a9a3..47aabeebbdf6 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
@@ -1,26 +1,23 @@
-                        Kprobe-based Event Tracer
-                         =========================
+                        Kprobe-based Event Tracing
+                        ==========================
 
                  Documentation is written by Masami Hiramatsu
 
 
 Overview
 --------
-This tracer is similar to the events tracer which is based on Tracepoint
-infrastructure. Instead of Tracepoint, this tracer is based on kprobes(kprobe
-and kretprobe). It probes anywhere where kprobes can probe(this means, all
-functions body except for __kprobes functions).
+These events are similar to tracepoint based events. Instead of Tracepoint,
+this is based on kprobes (kprobe and kretprobe). So it can probe wherever
+kprobes can probe (this means, all functions body except for __kprobes
+functions). Unlike the Tracepoint based event, this can be added and removed
+dynamically, on the fly.
 
-Unlike the function tracer, this tracer can probe instructions inside of
-kernel functions. It allows you to check which instruction has been executed.
+To enable this feature, build your kernel with CONFIG_KPROBE_TRACING=y.
 
-Unlike the Tracepoint based events tracer, this tracer can add and remove
-probe points on the fly.
-
-Similar to the events tracer, this tracer doesn't need to be activated via
-current_tracer, instead of that, just set probe points via
-/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events. And you can set filters on each
-probe events via /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/<EVENT>/filter.
+Similar to the events tracer, this doesn't need to be activated via
+current_tracer. Instead of that, add probe points via
+/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events, and enable it via
+/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/<EVENT>/enabled.
 
 
 Synopsis of kprobe_events
@@ -55,9 +52,9 @@ Per-Probe Event Filtering
 -------------------------
  Per-probe event filtering feature allows you to set different filter on each
 probe and gives you what arguments will be shown in trace buffer. If an event
-name is specified right after 'p:' or 'r:' in kprobe_events, the tracer adds
-an event under tracing/events/kprobes/<EVENT>, at the directory you can see
-'id', 'enabled', 'format' and 'filter'.
+name is specified right after 'p:' or 'r:' in kprobe_events, it adds an event
+under tracing/events/kprobes/<EVENT>, at the directory you can see 'id',
+'enabled', 'format' and 'filter'.
 
 enabled:
   You can enable/disable the probe by writing 1 or 0 on it.
@@ -71,6 +68,7 @@ filter:
 id:
   This shows the id of this probe event.
 
+
 Event Profiling
 ---------------
  You can check the total number of probe hits and probe miss-hits via
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 15372a9f2399..f05671609a89 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -428,17 +428,22 @@ config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
 
           If unsure, say N.
 
-config KPROBE_TRACER
+config KPROBE_EVENT
         depends on KPROBES
         depends on X86
-        bool "Trace kprobes"
+        bool "Enable kprobes-based dynamic events"
         select TRACING
-        select GENERIC_TRACER
+        default y
         help
-          This tracer probes everywhere where kprobes can probe it, and
-          records various registers and memories specified by user.
-          This also allows you to trace kprobe probe points as a dynamic
-          defined events. It provides per-probe event filtering interface.
+          This allows the user to add tracing events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly
+          via the ftrace interface. See Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
+          for more details.
+
+          Those events can be inserted wherever kprobes can probe, and record
+          various register and memory values.
+
+          This option is also required by perf-probe subcommand of perf tools. If
+          you want to use perf tools, this option is strongly recommended.
 
 config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
         bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically"
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Makefile b/kernel/trace/Makefile
index c8cb75d7f280..edc3a3cca1a1 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/trace/Makefile
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING) += trace_export.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS) += trace_syscalls.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE) += trace_event_profile.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING) += trace_events_filter.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_KPROBE_TRACER) += trace_kprobe.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT) += trace_kprobe.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING) += power-traces.o
 
 libftrace-y := ftrace.o
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index a86c3ac0df21..cf17a6694f32 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * kprobe based kernel tracer
+ * Kprobes-based tracing events
  *
  * Created by Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
  *
@@ -57,8 +57,6 @@ const char *reserved_field_names[] = {
         FIELD_STRING_FUNC,
 };
 
-/* currently, trace_kprobe only supports X86. */
-
 struct fetch_func {
         unsigned long (*func)(struct pt_regs *, void *);
         void *data;
@@ -191,7 +189,7 @@ static __kprobes void free_indirect_fetch_data(struct indirect_fetch_data *data)
 }
 
 /**
- * Kprobe tracer core functions
+ * Kprobe event core functions
  */
 
 struct probe_arg {