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authorMark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>2009-03-25 11:33:56 +0100
committerMark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>2009-03-25 11:33:56 +0100
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NEWS: Document how to see man pages for probes and functions in 3stap section.
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* What's new
- Systemtap probes and function man pages extracted from the tapsets
- are now available. To look at man page for systemtap vm.pagefault:
- $ man 3stap vm.pagefault
+ are now available in a separate man section 3stap.
+ To look at the page for probe vm.pagefault:
+ $ man -S 3stap probe_vm.pagefault
+ To look at the page for the function pexecname:
+ $ man -S 3stap pexecname
- Kernel tracepoints are now supported for probing predefined kernel
events without any debuginfo. Tracepoints incur less overhead than