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author | Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@elastic.org> | 2009-09-15 18:29:45 -0400 |
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committer | Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@elastic.org> | 2009-09-15 18:29:45 -0400 |
commit | da23eceb71cc70668ab9dfd80d318b3837703d9d (patch) | |
tree | dcfb85f50cf035213bde1836d2167ceca00c8205 /stap.1.in | |
parent | 2260f4e32eb4c0b4cc95e4bef8ccdc5dc66261af (diff) | |
parent | 24fcff20ed7a4a9f2b772c572db28ee8df49161f (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of ssh://sources.redhat.com/git/systemtap
* 'master' of ssh://sources.redhat.com/git/systemtap: (34 commits)
Update the langref copyright notice
Fix some probe examples in the language reference
Remove automatic authorization of servers started by root as trusted signers.
docs: add abnormal termination section to PROCESSING
Remove unneeded header file
Get the module to sign from -p4's stdout
Move --unprivileged support news to the top.
Firther updates to NEWS regarding signing and unprivileged users.
Authorize new certificates created for servers started by root as authorized signers.
2009-09-14 Dave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>
Allow remaining process.* probes for unprivileged users.
Use the sched_switch tracepoint if available.
PR10608: mark test cases untested once compilation failed
Make check.exp not sleep so much in test_installcheck.
Make tracepoints.exp test more efficient by running as one giant script.
Only test highest optimization for exelib.exp test.
Replace small exelib.exp testcases with one jumbo testcase.
Remove duplicate uprobe_derived_probe code
Add semaphores for use with the forthcoming sdt marker checks.
Add actual pc address to semantic error about inaccessible variables.
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Conflicts:
tapsets.cxx
Diffstat (limited to 'stap.1.in')
-rw-r--r-- | stap.1.in | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -971,11 +971,20 @@ kernel into temporary files, until the user sends an interrupt signal. Any run-time error encountered by the probe handlers, such as running out of memory, division by zero, exceeding nesting or runtime limits, results in a soft error indication. Soft errors in excess of -MAXERRORS block of all subsequent probes, and terminate the session. -Finally, +MAXERRORS block of all subsequent probes (except error-handling +probes), and terminate the session. Finally, .I staprun unloads the module, and cleans up. +.SS ABNORMAL TERMINATION + +One should avoid killing the stap process forcibly, for example with +SIGKILL, because the stapio process (a child process of the stap +process) and the loaded module may be left running on the system. If +this happens, send SIGTERM or SIGINT to any remaining stapio +processes, then use rmmod to unload the systemtap module. + + .SH EXAMPLES See the .IR stapex (3stap) |