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@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@ * What's new + - New probes process().insn and process().insn.block that allows + inspection of the process after each instruction or block of + instructions executed. So to count the total number of instructions + a process executes during a run do something like: + $ stap -e 'global steps; probe process("/bin/ls").insn {steps++} + probe end {printf("Total instructions: %d\n", steps);}' \ + -c /bin/ls + This feature can slow down execution of a process somewhat. + - Systemtap probes and function man pages extracted from the tapsets are now available in a separate man section 3stap. To look at the page for probe vm.pagefault: |