diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/multiple_kprobes.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/multiple_kprobes.tc
index bb16cf91f1b53e51856b2a4a5e498002b22ddaaa..e297bd7a2e79060a0f7a4f2ee1abce83c7e161f8 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/multiple_kprobes.tc
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/multiple_kprobes.tc
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ case `uname -m` in
   *) OFFS=0;;
 esac
 
-echo "Setup up to 256 kprobes"
-grep t /proc/kallsyms | cut -f3 -d" " | grep -v .*\\..* | \
+echo "Setup up kprobes on first 256 text symbols"
+grep -i " t " /proc/kallsyms | cut -f3 -d" " | grep -v .*\\..* | \
 head -n 256 | while read i; do echo p ${i}+${OFFS} ; done > kprobe_events ||:
 
 echo 1 > events/kprobes/enable