From 99329c44f28a1b7ac83beebfb4319e612042e319 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:27:48 -0400
Subject: tracing/kprobes: Remove '$ra' special variable

Remove '$ra' (return address) because it is already shown at the head of
each entry.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091007222748.1684.12711.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Documentation/trace')

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
index 33f531858c5..4208253b5a5 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-                         Kprobe-based Event Tracer
+                        Kprobe-based Event Tracer
                          =========================
 
                  Documentation is written by Masami Hiramatsu
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events
   $sa	: Fetch stack address.
   $aN	: Fetch function argument. (N >= 0)(*)
   $rv	: Fetch return value.(**)
-  $ra	: Fetch return address.(**)
   +|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(***)
   NAME=FETCHARG: Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG.
 
@@ -91,10 +90,10 @@ as below.
 1st to 4th arguments as "myprobe" event. As this example shows, users can
 choose more familiar names for each arguments.
 
-  echo r:myretprobe do_sys_open $rv $ra >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
+  echo r:myretprobe do_sys_open $rv >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
 
  This sets a kretprobe on the return point of do_sys_open() function with
-recording return value and return address as "myretprobe" event.
+recording return value as "myretprobe" event.
  You can see the format of these events via
 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/<EVENT>/format.
 
@@ -138,11 +137,11 @@ events, you need to enable it.
 #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |          |         |
            <...>-1447  [001] 1038282.286875: myprobe: (do_sys_open+0x0/0xd6) dfd=3 filename=7fffd1ec4440 flags=8000 mode=0
-           <...>-1447  [001] 1038282.286878: myretprobe: (sys_openat+0xc/0xe <- do_sys_open) $rv=fffffffffffffffe $ra=ffffffff81367a3a
+           <...>-1447  [001] 1038282.286878: myretprobe: (sys_openat+0xc/0xe <- do_sys_open) $rv=fffffffffffffffe
            <...>-1447  [001] 1038282.286885: myprobe: (do_sys_open+0x0/0xd6) dfd=ffffff9c filename=40413c flags=8000 mode=1b6
-           <...>-1447  [001] 1038282.286915: myretprobe: (sys_open+0x1b/0x1d <- do_sys_open) $rv=3 $ra=ffffffff81367a3a
+           <...>-1447  [001] 1038282.286915: myretprobe: (sys_open+0x1b/0x1d <- do_sys_open) $rv=3
            <...>-1447  [001] 1038282.286969: myprobe: (do_sys_open+0x0/0xd6) dfd=ffffff9c filename=4041c6 flags=98800 mode=10
-           <...>-1447  [001] 1038282.286976: myretprobe: (sys_open+0x1b/0x1d <- do_sys_open) $rv=3 $ra=ffffffff81367a3a
+           <...>-1447  [001] 1038282.286976: myretprobe: (sys_open+0x1b/0x1d <- do_sys_open) $rv=3
 
 
  Each line shows when the kernel hits an event, and <- SYMBOL means kernel
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