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2<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">Chapter 1. Introduction</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Common_Content/css/default.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="Common_Content/css/print.css" type="text/css" /><meta xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" name="generator" content="not publican" /><meta xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" name="package" content="" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SystemTap Beginners Guide" /><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="SystemTap Beginners Guide" /><link rel="prev" href="pr01s02.html" title="2. We Need Feedback!" /><link rel="next" href="intro-systemtap-vs-others.html" title="1.2. SystemTap Capabilities" /></head><body><p id="title"></p><ul class="docnav top"><li class="previous"><a accesskey="p" href="pr01s02.html"><strong>Prev</strong></a></li><li class="home">SystemTap Beginners Guide</li><li class="next"><a accesskey="n" href="intro-systemtap-vs-others.html"><strong>Next</strong></a></li></ul><div class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="introduction"> 2<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">Chapter 1. Introduction</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Common_Content/css/default.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="Common_Content/css/print.css" type="text/css" /><meta xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" name="generator" content="not publican" /><meta xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" name="package" content="" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SystemTap Beginners Guide" /><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="SystemTap Beginners Guide" /><link rel="prev" href="pr01s02.html" title="2. We Need Feedback!" /><link rel="next" href="intro-systemtap-vs-others.html" title="1.2. SystemTap Capabilities" /></head><body><p id="title"></p><ul class="docnav top"><li class="previous"><a accesskey="p" href="pr01s02.html"><strong>Prev</strong></a></li><li class="home">SystemTap Beginners Guide</li><li class="next"><a accesskey="n" href="intro-systemtap-vs-others.html"><strong>Next</strong></a></li></ul><div class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="introduction">
3 ⁠</a>Chapter 1. Introduction</h1></div></div></div><div class="toc"><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="section"><a href="introduction.html#goals">1.1. Documentation Goals</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="intro-systemtap-vs-others.html">1.2. SystemTap Capabilities</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="intro-systemtap-limitations.html">1.3. Limitations of SystemTap</a></span></dt></dl></div><a id="idm140174741141600" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idm140174743503120" class="indexterm"></a><div class="para"> 3 ⁠</a>Chapter 1. Introduction</h1></div></div></div><div class="toc"><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="section"><a href="introduction.html#goals">1.1. Documentation Goals</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="intro-systemtap-vs-others.html">1.2. SystemTap Capabilities</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="intro-systemtap-limitations.html">1.3. Limitations of SystemTap</a></span></dt></dl></div><a id="idm48004276845744" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idm48004283411120" class="indexterm"></a><div class="para">
4 SystemTap is a tracing and probing tool that allows 4 SystemTap is a tracing and probing tool that allows
5 users to study and monitor the activities of the 5 users to study and monitor the activities of the
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11 designed to provide more filtering and analysis 11 designed to provide more filtering and analysis
12 options for collected information. 12 options for collected information.
13 </div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="goals"> 13 </div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="goals">
14 ⁠</a>1.1. Documentation Goals</h2></div></div></div><a id="idm140174741116352" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idm140174739459264" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idm140174742104896" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idm140174737030720" class="indexterm"></a><div class="para">SystemTap provides the infrastructure to monitor the running Linux kernel for detailed analysis. This can assist administrators and developers in identifying the underlying cause of a bug or performance problem.</div><div class="para">Without SystemTap, monitoring the activity of a running kernel would require a tedious instrument, recompile, install, and reboot sequence. SystemTap is designed to eliminate this and allows users to gather the same information by running user-written SystemTap scripts.</div><div class="para">SystemTap was initially designed for users with intermediate to advanced knowledge of the kernel. As a consequence, it is less useful to administrators or developers with limited knowledge of and experience with the Linux kernel. Moreover, much of the existing SystemTap documentation is aimed at knowledgeable and experienced users, which makes learning the tool similarly difficult.</div><div class="para">To lower these barriers, the SystemTap Beginners Guide was written with the following goals:</div><div xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" class="itemizedlist"><ul><li class="listitem"><div class="para">to introduce users to SystemTap, familiarize 14 ⁠</a>1.1. Documentation Goals</h2></div></div></div><a id="idm48004276855232" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idm48004278455968" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idm48004278628560" class="indexterm"></a><a id="idm48004279293936" class="indexterm"></a><div class="para">SystemTap provides the infrastructure to monitor the running Linux kernel for detailed analysis. This can assist administrators and developers in identifying the underlying cause of a bug or performance problem.</div><div class="para">Without SystemTap, monitoring the activity of a running kernel would require a tedious instrument, recompile, install, and reboot sequence. SystemTap is designed to eliminate this and allows users to gather the same information by running user-written SystemTap scripts.</div><div class="para">SystemTap was initially designed for users with intermediate to advanced knowledge of the kernel. As a consequence, it is less useful to administrators or developers with limited knowledge of and experience with the Linux kernel. Moreover, much of the existing SystemTap documentation is aimed at knowledgeable and experienced users, which makes learning the tool similarly difficult.</div><div class="para">To lower these barriers, the SystemTap Beginners Guide was written with the following goals:</div><div xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" class="itemizedlist"><ul><li class="listitem"><div class="para">to introduce users to SystemTap, familiarize
15 them with its architecture, and provide setup 15 them with its architecture, and provide setup
16 instructions;</div></li><li class="listitem"><div class="para">to provide pre-written SystemTap scripts for monitoring detailed activity in different components of the system, along with instructions on how to run them and analyze their output.</div></li></ul></div></div></div><ul class="docnav"><li class="previous"><a accesskey="p" href="pr01s02.html"><strong>Prev</strong>2. We Need Feedback!</a></li><li class="up"><a accesskey="u" href="#"><strong>Up</strong></a></li><li class="home"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><strong>Home</strong></a></li><li class="next"><a accesskey="n" href="intro-systemtap-vs-others.html"><strong>Next</strong>1.2. SystemTap Capabilities</a></li></ul></body></html> \ No newline at end of file 16 instructions;</div></li><li class="listitem"><div class="para">to provide pre-written SystemTap scripts for monitoring detailed activity in different components of the system, along with instructions on how to run them and analyze their output.</div></li></ul></div></div></div><ul class="docnav"><li class="previous"><a accesskey="p" href="pr01s02.html"><strong>Prev</strong>2. We Need Feedback!</a></li><li class="up"><a accesskey="u" href="#"><strong>Up</strong></a></li><li class="home"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><strong>Home</strong></a></li><li class="next"><a accesskey="n" href="intro-systemtap-vs-others.html"><strong>Next</strong>1.2. SystemTap Capabilities</a></li></ul></body></html> \ No newline at end of file