From: tip-bot for Motohiro KOSAKI on
Commit-ID: df3ab708b787a2b35de5101452bd51d4a8ae0ded
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/df3ab708b787a2b35de5101452bd51d4a8ae0ded
Author: Motohiro KOSAKI <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:35:12 -0500
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu>
CommitDate: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:18:15 +0100

kprobetrace, doc: Add the explanation to remove probe points

Latest kprobetrace can remove probe points selectively, thus
the documentation should be updated too.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat(a)redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap(a)sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop(a)lists.sourceforge.net>
LKML-Reference: <20100119023512.31880.35535.stgit(a)localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu>
---
Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt | 7 +++++++
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
index ab57f02..a9100b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
@@ -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.

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