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authorJosh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>2009-04-14 12:34:12 -0700
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PR9953: split up the two process.* tapsets
The overlapping process.* tapsets are now separated. Those probe points documented in stapprobes(3stap) remain the same. Those that were formerly in stapprobes.process(3stap) have been renamed to kprocess, to reflect their kernel perspective on processes.
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-rw-r--r--man/stapprobes.kprocess.3stap.in (renamed from man/stapprobes.process.3stap.in)22
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/man/stapprobes.process.3stap.in b/man/stapprobes.kprocess.3stap.in
index aa8089e8..4f5e7903 100644
--- a/man/stapprobes.process.3stap.in
+++ b/man/stapprobes.kprocess.3stap.in
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
.\" -*- nroff -*-
-.TH STAPPROBES.PROCESS 3stap @DATE@ "Intel, IBM"
+.TH STAPPROBES.KPROCESS 3stap @DATE@ "Intel, IBM"
.SH NAME
-stapprobes.process \- systemtap process probe points
+stapprobes.kprocess \- systemtap kernel process probe points
.\" macros
.de SAMPLE
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@ stapprobes.process \- systemtap process probe points
.SH DESCRIPTION
-This family of probe points is used to probe the process activities.
+This family of probe points is used to probe the kernel's process activities.
It contains the following probe points:
.P
.TP
-.B process.create
+.B kprocess.create
Fires whenever a new process is successfully created, either as a
result of one of the fork syscall variants, or a new kernel thread.
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ result of one of the fork syscall variants, or a new kernel thread.
.P
.TP
-.B process.start
+.B kprocess.start
Fires immediately before a new process begins execution.
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Fires immediately before a new process begins execution.
.P
.TP
-.B process.exec
+.B kprocess.exec
Fires whenever a process attempts to exec to a new program
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Fires whenever a process attempts to exec to a new program
.P
.TP
-.B process.exec_complete
+.B kprocess.exec_complete
Fires at the completion of an exec call
@@ -73,10 +73,10 @@ Fires at the completion of an exec call
.P
.TP
-.B process.exit
+.B kprocess.exit
Fires when a process terminates. This will always be followed by a
-process.release, though the latter may be delayed if the process
+kprocess.release, though the latter may be delayed if the process
waits in a zombie state.
.B Arguments:
@@ -86,10 +86,10 @@ waits in a zombie state.
.P
.TP
-.B process.release
+.B kprocess.release
Fires when a process is released from the kernel. This always
-follows a process.exit, though it may be delayed somewhat if the
+follows a kprocess.exit, though it may be delayed somewhat if the
process waits in a zombie state.
.B Arguments: