From c1ac094d5061e757624a47217d2195ba24a75450 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Naveen N. Rao" Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 22:34:14 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] doc: trace/kprobes: add information about NOKPROBE_SYMBOL Update kprobe tracer documentation to also mention that NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() and nokprobe_inline add symbols to the kprobes blacklist. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d924e20de099579ace4286e610304f054cd798db.1488991670.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt index 41ef9d8efe95..5ea85059db3b 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt @@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ Overview -------- 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 +kprobes can probe (this means, all functions except those with +__kprobes/nokprobe_inline annotation and those marked NOKPROBE_SYMBOL). +Unlike the Tracepoint based event, this can be added and removed dynamically, on the fly. To enable this feature, build your kernel with CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS=y.