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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 <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d924e20de099579ace4286e610304f054cd798db.1488991670.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Naveen N. Rao 8 years ago
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      Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt

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Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt

@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ Overview
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 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.