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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2010-07-05 15:54:45 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-07-05 15:54:45 -0300
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tracing/kprobes: Support "string" type
Support string type tracing and printing in kprobe-tracer. This allows user to trace string data in kernel including __user data. Note that sometimes __user data may not be accessed if it is paged-out (sorry, but kprobes operation should be done in atomic, we can not wait for page-in). Commiter note: Fixed up conflicts with b7e2ece. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100519195724.2885.18788.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
index ec94748ae65b..5f77d94598dd 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events
+|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(**)
NAME=FETCHARG : Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG.
FETCHARG:TYPE : Set TYPE as the type of FETCHARG. Currently, basic types
- (u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64) are supported.
+ (u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64) and string are supported.
(*) only for return probe.
(**) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures.