kprobetrace, doc: Add the explanation to remove probe points
authorMotohiro KOSAKI <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:35:12 +0000 (21:35 -0500)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:18:15 +0000 (07:18 +0100)
Latest kprobetrace can remove probe points selectively, thus
the documentation should be updated too.

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: <20100119023512.31880.35535.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt

index ab57f02e53bbe08bf835a9f5240f59be9a384e99..a9100b28eb844da1974dd24dcaa2a320887eddda 100644 (file)
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events
 -------------------------
   p[:[GRP/]EVENT] SYMBOL[+offs]|MEMADDR [FETCHARGS]    : Set a probe
   r[:[GRP/]EVENT] SYMBOL[+0] [FETCHARGS]               : Set a return probe
+  -:[GRP/]EVENT                                                : Clear a probe
 
  GRP           : Group name. If omitted, use "kprobes" for it.
  EVENT         : Event name. If omitted, the event name is generated
@@ -122,6 +123,12 @@ REC->dfd, REC->filename, REC->flags, REC->mode
 
  This clears all probe points.
 
+ Or,
+
+  echo -:myprobe >> kprobe_events
+
+ This clears probe points selectively.
+
  Right after definition, each event is disabled by default. For tracing these
 events, you need to enable it.