From: Motohiro KOSAKI Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:35:05 +0000 (-0500) Subject: kprobetrace, doc: Shell needs single quote to use $ character X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=580d9e00fdfb85e65c5097dcd739c6efcdbadc96;p=GitHub%2Fmt8127%2Fandroid_kernel_alcatel_ttab.git kprobetrace, doc: Shell needs single quote to use $ character Shell interprets $val as shell variable, thus we need quote if we use the echo command. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: systemtap Cc: DLE LKML-Reference: <20100119023505.31880.17367.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt index f30978e001f8..ab57f02e53bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Usage examples To add a probe as a new event, write a new definition to kprobe_events as below. - echo p:myprobe do_sys_open dfd=%ax filename=%dx flags=%cx mode=+4($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.