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@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@ * What's new +- A serious problem associated with user-space probing in shared libraries + was corrected, making it now possible to experiment with probe shared + libraries. Assuming dwarf debugging information is installed, use this + twist on the normal syntax: + + probe process("/lib64/libc-2.8.so").function("....") { ... } + + This would probe all threads that call into that library. Running + "stap -c CMD" or "stap -x PID" naturally restricts this to the target + command+descendants only. + +- For scripts that sometimes terminate with excessive "skipped" probes, + rerunning the script with "-t" (timing) will print more details about + the skippage reasons. + - Symbol tables and unwind (backtracing) data support were formerly compiled in for all probed modules as identified by the script (kernel; module("name"); process("file")) plus those listed by the |