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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2009-10-07 18:27:48 -0400
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-10-12 13:24:05 -0400
commit99329c44f28a1b7ac83beebfb4319e612042e319 (patch)
treedd28ca39b7a0b9130cc513f313255a38a8cea204 /Documentation
parent405b2651e4bedf8d3932b64cad649b4d26b067f5 (diff)
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')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt13
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
index 33f531858c56..4208253b5a53 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
1 Kprobe-based Event Tracer 1 Kprobe-based Event Tracer
2 ========================= 2 =========================
3 3
4 Documentation is written by Masami Hiramatsu 4 Documentation is written by Masami Hiramatsu
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events
42 $sa : Fetch stack address. 42 $sa : Fetch stack address.
43 $aN : Fetch function argument. (N >= 0)(*) 43 $aN : Fetch function argument. (N >= 0)(*)
44 $rv : Fetch return value.(**) 44 $rv : Fetch return value.(**)
45 $ra : Fetch return address.(**)
46 +|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(***) 45 +|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(***)
47 NAME=FETCHARG: Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG. 46 NAME=FETCHARG: Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG.
48 47
@@ -91,10 +90,10 @@ as below.
911st to 4th arguments as "myprobe" event. As this example shows, users can 901st to 4th arguments as "myprobe" event. As this example shows, users can
92choose more familiar names for each arguments. 91choose more familiar names for each arguments.
93 92
94 echo r:myretprobe do_sys_open $rv $ra >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events 93 echo r:myretprobe do_sys_open $rv >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
95 94
96 This sets a kretprobe on the return point of do_sys_open() function with 95 This sets a kretprobe on the return point of do_sys_open() function with
97recording return value and return address as "myretprobe" event. 96recording return value as "myretprobe" event.
98 You can see the format of these events via 97 You can see the format of these events via
99/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/<EVENT>/format. 98/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/<EVENT>/format.
100 99
@@ -138,11 +137,11 @@ events, you need to enable it.
138# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION 137# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
139# | | | | | 138# | | | | |
140 <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286875: myprobe: (do_sys_open+0x0/0xd6) dfd=3 filename=7fffd1ec4440 flags=8000 mode=0 139 <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286875: myprobe: (do_sys_open+0x0/0xd6) dfd=3 filename=7fffd1ec4440 flags=8000 mode=0
141 <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286878: myretprobe: (sys_openat+0xc/0xe <- do_sys_open) $rv=fffffffffffffffe $ra=ffffffff81367a3a 140 <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286878: myretprobe: (sys_openat+0xc/0xe <- do_sys_open) $rv=fffffffffffffffe
142 <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286885: myprobe: (do_sys_open+0x0/0xd6) dfd=ffffff9c filename=40413c flags=8000 mode=1b6 141 <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286885: myprobe: (do_sys_open+0x0/0xd6) dfd=ffffff9c filename=40413c flags=8000 mode=1b6
143 <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286915: myretprobe: (sys_open+0x1b/0x1d <- do_sys_open) $rv=3 $ra=ffffffff81367a3a 142 <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286915: myretprobe: (sys_open+0x1b/0x1d <- do_sys_open) $rv=3
144 <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286969: myprobe: (do_sys_open+0x0/0xd6) dfd=ffffff9c filename=4041c6 flags=98800 mode=10 143 <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286969: myprobe: (do_sys_open+0x0/0xd6) dfd=ffffff9c filename=4041c6 flags=98800 mode=10
145 <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286976: myretprobe: (sys_open+0x1b/0x1d <- do_sys_open) $rv=3 $ra=ffffffff81367a3a 144 <...>-1447 [001] 1038282.286976: myretprobe: (sys_open+0x1b/0x1d <- do_sys_open) $rv=3
146 145
147 146
148 Each line shows when the kernel hits an event, and <- SYMBOL means kernel 147 Each line shows when the kernel hits an event, and <- SYMBOL means kernel