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diff --git a/src/bin/lttng/commands/add_context.c b/src/bin/lttng/commands/add_context.c
index 3cd00f3d3..e823b1e6f 100644
--- a/src/bin/lttng/commands/add_context.c
+++ b/src/bin/lttng/commands/add_context.c
@@ -322,6 +322,9 @@ static void usage(FILE *ofp)
 	fprintf(ofp, "                           TYPE can be one of the strings below:\n");
 	print_ctx_type(ofp);
 	fprintf(ofp, "\n");
+	fprintf(ofp, "Note that the vpid, vppid and vtid context types represent the virtual process id,\n"
+			"virtual parent process id and virtual thread id as seen from the current execution context\n"
+			"as opposed to the pid, ppid and tid which are kernel internal data structures.\n\n");
 	fprintf(ofp, "Example:\n");
 	fprintf(ofp, "This command will add the context information 'prio' and two perf\n"
 			"counters (hardware branch misses and cache misses), to all channels\n"
@@ -474,7 +477,7 @@ int cmd_add_context(int argc, const char **argv)
 			}
 
 			type->opt = &ctx_opts[index];
-			if (type->opt->ctx_type == -1) {
+			if (type->opt->symbol == NULL) {
 				ERR("Unknown context type %s", opt_type);
 				free(type);
 				ret = CMD_ERROR;