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@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@ * What's new in version 0.6 / 0.6.1 +- Prototype support for user-space probing is showing some progress. + No symbolic notations are supported yet (so no probing by function names, + file names, process names, and no access to $context variables), but at + least it's something: + + probe process(PID).statement(ADDRESS).absolute { } + + This will set a uprobe on the given process-id and given virtual address. + The proble handler runs in kernel-space as usual, and can generally use + existing tapset functions. + - Crash utility can retrieve systemtap's relay buffer from a kernel dump image by using staplog which is a crash extension module. To use this feature, type commands as below from crash(8)'s command line: |