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authorMotohiro KOSAKI <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>2010-01-19 05:35:05 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-01-20 09:18:14 +0300
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kprobetrace, doc: Shell needs single quote to use $ character
Shell interprets $val as shell variable, thus we need quote if we use the echo command. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> LKML-Reference: <20100119023505.31880.17367.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
index f30978e001f8..ab57f02e53bb 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Usage examples
To add a probe as a new event, write a new definition to kprobe_events
as below.
- echo p:myprobe do_sys_open dfd=%ax filename=%dx flags=%cx mode=+4($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.