SystemTap Dissertation

[swb6@aber.ac.uk]

Hi,
Im an Undergraduate computer science student and have been very interested
in the emergence of new kernel tracing technologies and I have based my
dissertation on systemTap.

The application i have designed allows a user to deploy system tap scripts
to a number of hosts across a network, and retrieve and store results from
each system, with scope for real time graphing of performance (so far only
file system read writes).

I would like to offer the user the ability to create there own scripts by
offering a list of possible probe points that they can access.

I have see that something similar is possible in D trace and can be be
achieved via the command 'dtrace -l -P <provider>
which will list all the probes available in that providers area e.g.
syscall provider.

Is anything like this available with systemTap, If I could provide a list
of probe points for a user specified area of the kernel I could reduce the
learning curve to anyone new to systemTap and kernel tuning/debugging
(this includes myself)

Sorry to hijack this list with such a basic question

Steve