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Commit 580d9e00 authored by Motohiro KOSAKI's avatar Motohiro KOSAKI Committed by Ingo Molnar
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kprobetrace, doc: Shell needs single quote to use $ character 



Shell interprets $val as shell variable, thus we need quote if
we use the echo command.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
LKML-Reference: <20100119023505.31880.17367.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent f426a7e0

Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt

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@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Usage examples 
To add a probe as a new event, write a new definition to kprobe_events

as below.



  echo p:myprobe do_sys_open dfd=%ax filename=%dx flags=%cx mode=+4($stack) > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events

  echo 'p:myprobe do_sys_open dfd=%ax filename=%dx flags=%cx mode=+4($stack)' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events



 This sets a kprobe on the top of do_sys_open() function with recording

1st to 4th arguments as "myprobe" event. Note, which register/stack entry is
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ the ABI, please try to use probe subcommand of perf-tools (you can find it 
under tools/perf/).

As this example shows, users can choose more familiar names for each arguments.



  echo r:myretprobe do_sys_open $retval >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events

  echo 'r:myretprobe do_sys_open $retval' >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events



 This sets a kretprobe on the return point of do_sys_open() function with

recording return value as "myretprobe" event.