From 1ada6f08ba42f3c1a2f7986f1ad955fd79e06e41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fche Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:48:02 +0000 Subject: 2008-02-18 Frank Ch. Eigler * NEWS, stapprobes.5.in: Document basic (non-symbolic prototype) user-space probe points. --- NEWS | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 05d11eca..073945e1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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: -- cgit