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| author | Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com> | 2009-03-20 17:49:32 -0700 |
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| committer | Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com> | 2009-03-20 17:49:32 -0700 |
| commit | b1a4288cb2293d59010e3c0183f582b65b7e163e (patch) | |
| tree | 82475595d1ad7a71a0e05fbb63cfb1942848d3d6 | |
| parent | ccd65d4a6f99ded6bfc05deee39f9d20816ca8a6 (diff) | |
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Add a tracepoint NEWS blurb
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@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ * What's new +- Kernel tracepoints are now supported for probing predefined kernel + events without any debuginfo. Tracepoints incur less overhead than + kprobes, and context parameters are available with full type + information. Any kernel 2.6.28 and later should have defined + tracepoints. Try the following to see what's available: + $ stap -L 'kernel.trace("*")' + - Typecasting with @cast now supports modules search paths, which is useful in case there are multiple places where the type definition may be found. For example: |