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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2009-11-03 19:12:47 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-11-04 13:02:48 +0100
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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>
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@@ -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