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@@ -1039,10 +1039,10 @@ Maximum number of soft errors before an exit is triggered, default 0, which
means that the first error will exit the script.
.TP
MAXSKIPPED
-.TP
Maximum number of skipped probes before an exit is triggered, default 100.
Running systemtap with \-t (timing) mode gives more details about skipped
probes.
+.TP
MINSTACKSPACE
Minimum number of free kernel stack bytes required in order to
run a probe handler, default 1024. This number should be large enough
@@ -1053,8 +1053,9 @@ Maximum number of concurrently armed user-space probes (uprobes), default
100 times the number of user-space probe points named in the script. This
pool is large because individual uprobe objects are allocated for each
process for each script-level probe.
+
.PP
-Multipule scripts can write data into a relay buffer concurrently. A host
+Multiple scripts can write data into a relay buffer concurrently. A host
script provides an interface for accessing its relay buffer to guest scripts.
Then, the output of the guests are merged into the output of the host.
To run a script as a host, execute stap with
@@ -1096,16 +1097,16 @@ using symbols read from vmlinux and/or the modules in /lib/modules.
Systemtap can also read the kernel symbol table from a text file
such as /boot/System.map or /proc/kallsyms.
See the
-.B \-\--kelf
+.B \-\-kelf
and
-.B \-\--kmap
+.B \-\-kmap
options.
.PP
If systemtap finds relevant debugging information,
it will use it even if you specify
-.B \-\--kelf
+.B \-\-kelf
or
-.BR \-\--kmap .
+.BR \-\-kmap .
.PP
Without debugging information, systemtap cannot support the
following types of language constructs: