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* What's new
+- Kernel tracepoints are now supported for probing predefined kernel
+ events without any debuginfo. Tracepoints incur less overhead than
+ kprobes, and context parameters are available with full type
+ information. Any kernel 2.6.28 and later should have defined
+ tracepoints. Try the following to see what's available:
+ $ stap -L 'kernel.trace("*")'
+
- Typecasting with @cast now supports modules search paths, which is
useful in case there are multiple places where the type definition
may be found. For example: