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| author | Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@elastic.org> | 2008-02-22 21:10:25 -0500 |
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| committer | Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@elastic.org> | 2008-02-22 21:10:25 -0500 |
| commit | 6abaaba810bb1804c68b47d3bf8157ec2bd9eb00 (patch) | |
| tree | 65dcdf60b9a391eb1f3b6a488cae0b7cae111088 /stapprobes.5.in | |
| parent | 9a6524b486ecf0671b924a1c8b9d439a40810505 (diff) | |
| parent | 780c08c8f4d5020052d3de50dfc3abacac589feb (diff) | |
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diff --git a/stapprobes.5.in b/stapprobes.5.in index 642ed739..55fcb3c7 100644 --- a/stapprobes.5.in +++ b/stapprobes.5.in @@ -363,7 +363,10 @@ The next part names the marker itself: .BR mark("name") . The marker name string, which may contain the usual wildcard characters, is matched against the names given to the marker macros when the kernel -and/or module was compiled. +and/or module was compiled. Optionally, you can specify +.BR format("format") . +Specifying the marker format string allows differentation between two +markers with the same name but different marker format strings. The handler associated with a marker-based probe may read the optional parameters specified at the macro call site. These are @@ -372,6 +375,9 @@ named where NN is the number of parameters supplied by the macro. Number and string parameters are passed in a type-safe manner. +The marker format string associated with a marker is available in +.BR $format . + .SS PERFORMANCE MONITORING HARDWARE The perfmon family of probe points is used to access the performance |