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authorAndreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@fau.de>2018-07-16 13:05:58 +0200
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2018-07-23 17:26:42 +0200
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parentDocumentation: {u,k}probes: fix filename for event enabling (diff)
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Documentation: kprobetrace: document 'trigger' file
As the other files are documented explicitly, let's add a short description for 'trigger' as well. Signed-off-by: Andreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@fau.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
index c4aaef7d7c89..8bfc75c90806 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Per-probe event filtering feature allows you to set different filter on each
probe and gives you what arguments will be shown in trace buffer. If an event
name is specified right after 'p:' or 'r:' in kprobe_events, it adds an event
under tracing/events/kprobes/<EVENT>, at the directory you can see 'id',
-'enable', 'format' and 'filter'.
+'enable', 'format', 'filter' and 'trigger'.
enable:
You can enable/disable the probe by writing 1 or 0 on it.
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@ filter:
id:
This shows the id of this probe event.
+trigger:
+ This allows to install trigger commands which are executed when the event is
+ hit (for details, see Documentation/trace/events.rst, section 6).
Event Profiling
---------------