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authorAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>2009-04-21 17:08:31 +0530
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Documentation updates for kprobe.function family
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Such accesses can originate from $context expressions fueled by
erroneous debug data, or by kernel_{long,string,...}() tapset calls.
+- New probes kprobe.function(FUNCTION) and kprobe.function(FUNCTION).return
+ for dwarfless probing. These postpone function address resolution to
+ run-time and use the kprobe symbol-resolution mechanism.
+ Probing of absolute statements can be done using the
+ kprobe.statement(ADDRESS).absolute construct.
+
* What's new in version 0.9.5
- New probes process().insn and process().insn.block that allows