From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26182 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2010 19:18:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 26175 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Nov 2010 19:18:56 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:18:50 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oA1JInG4019984 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 15:18:49 -0400 Received: from [10.11.231.216] (dhcp231-216.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.231.216]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oA1JIjJ3026495; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 15:18:48 -0400 Message-ID: <4CCF1294.70707@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:18:00 -0000 From: William Cohen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100827 Red Hat/3.1.3-1.el6 Thunderbird/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: systemtap@sourceware.org CC: Don Domingo Subject: Re: documentation for user-space usage? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact systemtap-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: systemtap-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-q4/txt/msg00144.txt.bz2 On 10/31/2010 12:26 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > > Hi, Grant - > > > grant.b.edwards wrote: ... >> About the only documentation I can find on systemtap user-space stuff >> is http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/AddingUserSpaceProbingToApps, > > The beginner's guide is going to get more content about this soon. > In the mean time, stapprobes(3stap) includes documentation. See > the > process("/path/to/binary").{statement,function,mark}(...) > probes. I just checked in some material for the Systemtap beginner's guide into the systemtap git tree. This is to address PR11823 - document user-space probes and other recent features in beginner's guide: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11823 There are some todo left on this material: -compiling the uprobes.ko module when needed -pretty printing $ $$ suffixes -user-space stack backtraces Any comments or feedback on the material would be appreciated. -Will