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authorDavid Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>2009-09-10 12:39:11 -0500
committerDavid Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>2009-09-10 12:39:11 -0500
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SYSTEMTAP_RUNTIME, SYSTEMTAP_TAPSET, SYSTEMTAP_DEBUGINFO_PATH
- nss and nss-tools are required to use this feature.
+- A new experimental transport mechanism, using ftrace's ring_buffer,
+ has been added. This may become the default transport mechanism in
+ future versions of systemtap. To test this new transport mechanism,
+ define 'STP_USE_RING_BUFFER'.
+
* What's new in version 0.9.9
- Systemwide kernel .function.return (kretprobe) maxactive defaults may