userspace remote instrumentation.

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Wed Mar 26 10:52:00 GMT 2014


Hi -

Khaled.Ahmed wrote:

> I have a question, can I generate instrumentation for a target
> system to probe user space applications ? I know that I can do for
> kernel with the stap -r <kern_ver> but not sure if I can probe a
> user space app the same way.[...]

That's a good question.  No, we have only partial support for this
case in the sense of parametrizing it analogously to -r.  Try the
"stap --sysroot=DIR" option, in case you have a mirror of the target
system's root (binaries/debuginfo).

- FChE



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