aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Documentation/tracepoints.txt
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/tracepoints.txt')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/tracepoints.txt13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/tracepoints.txt b/Documentation/tracepoints.txt
index 4ff43c6de299..c0e1ceed75a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/tracepoints.txt
+++ b/Documentation/tracepoints.txt
@@ -103,13 +103,14 @@ used to export the defined tracepoints.
103 103
104* Probe / tracepoint example 104* Probe / tracepoint example
105 105
106See the example provided in samples/tracepoints/src 106See the example provided in samples/tracepoints
107 107
108Compile them with your kernel. 108Compile them with your kernel. They are built during 'make' (not
109'make modules') when CONFIG_SAMPLE_TRACEPOINTS=m.
109 110
110Run, as root : 111Run, as root :
111modprobe tracepoint-example (insmod order is not important) 112modprobe tracepoint-sample (insmod order is not important)
112modprobe tracepoint-probe-example 113modprobe tracepoint-probe-sample
113cat /proc/tracepoint-example (returns an expected error) 114cat /proc/tracepoint-sample (returns an expected error)
114rmmod tracepoint-example tracepoint-probe-example 115rmmod tracepoint-sample tracepoint-probe-sample
115dmesg 116dmesg