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| author | fche <fche> | 2005-02-15 16:48:41 +0000 |
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| committer | fche <fche> | 2005-02-15 16:48:41 +0000 |
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| 1 | <html><head><title>SystemTap Page</title></head><body> | 1 | <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> |
| 2 | <h1>SystemTap</h1> | 2 | <html> |
| 3 | <p> | 3 | <head> |
| 4 | The systemtap project aims to produce a Linux tool that lets developers | 4 | <title>SystemTap Page</title> |
| 5 | and system administrators take a deeper look into a running kernel. | 5 | <style type="text/css"> |
| 6 | body { font-family : Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif ; margin : 0em; } | ||
| 7 | a { color : #000000; } | ||
| 8 | a:hover { text-decoration : underline; background : #eeeeee;} | ||
| 9 | h1 { font-size: 18px; } | ||
| 10 | pre { margin-left: 20px; } | ||
| 11 | div#footer {position: absolute; width: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; top: auto; bottom: 0; font-size: 10pt; | ||
| 12 | background: #eee; color: #111; text-align: center; line-height:150%;} | ||
| 13 | </style> | ||
| 14 | </head> | ||
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| 16 | <body> | ||
| 17 | <div style="background-color:#cc0000; color: #f5f5f5; width: 100%; font-size: 25px; padding: 10px; font-weight: bold; ">SystemTap | ||
| 18 | </div> | ||
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| 20 | <div style="margin: 10px;"> | ||
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| 22 | <h1>Overview</h1> | ||
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| 24 | <p>The SystemTap project aims to produce a Linux tool that | ||
| 25 | lets application developers and system administrators take a deeper look into a running kernel. | ||
| 6 | We aim to exploit the capability of a fully open-source Linux target to | 26 | We aim to exploit the capability of a fully open-source Linux target to |
| 7 | go beyond performance measurements, and maybe even serve as a programmable | 27 | go beyond performance measurements, and perhaps even serve as a programmable debugger. |
| 8 | debugger. | 28 | </p> |
| 9 | <p> | 29 | |
| 10 | We find inspiration in | 30 | <p>We find inspiration in <a href="http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/">Sun's dtrace</a>, |
| 11 | <a href="http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/">Sun's dtrace</a>, | 31 | but many technical aspects of our approach will be different. |
| 12 | but many technical aspects of our approach will be different. See this | 32 | See this <a href="archpaper-0502.pdf">SystemTap architecture paper (draft)</a>. |
| 13 | <a href="archpaper-0502.pdf">draft architecture paper</a>. Project | 33 | </p> |
| 14 | members include Red Hat, IBM; other interested parties are welcome to help! | 34 | |
| 15 | <p> | 35 | <h1>Who is involved</h1> |
| 16 | A <a href="/ml/systemtap/">public mailing list</a> is available. Sign up | 36 | |
| 37 | <p>Current project members include Red Hat and IBM; other interested parties are welcome to help! | ||
| 38 | Sign up to the <a href="/ml/systemtap/">public mailing list</a> | ||
| 17 | by sending email to <a href="mailto:systemtap-subscribe@sources.redhat.com"> | 39 | by sending email to <a href="mailto:systemtap-subscribe@sources.redhat.com"> |
| 18 | <tt>systemtap-subscribe@sources.redhat.com</tt></a>. | 40 | <tt>systemtap-subscribe@sources.redhat.com</tt></a>. |
| 19 | A standard sourceware-style CVS service is also available. | 41 | </p> |
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| 43 | <p>A standard sourceware-style CVS service is also available:</p> | ||
| 20 | <pre> | 44 | <pre> |
| 21 | cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/systemtap login | 45 | cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/systemtap login |
| 22 | {enter "anoncvs" as the password} | 46 | {enter "anoncvs" as the password} |
| 23 | cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/systemtap co -c | 47 | cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/systemtap co -c |
| 24 | </pre> | 48 | </pre> |
| 25 | <p> | 49 | |
| 26 | As a courtesy, a snapshot of IBM's <a href="kprobes/">dprobes and kprobes</a> | 50 | <h1>Related information</h1> |
| 27 | project pages is also hosted here. Systemtap is expected to use kprobes as | 51 | |
| 28 | a lower layer. | 52 | <p>As a courtesy, a snapshot of IBM's <a href="kprobes/">dprobes and kprobes</a> |
| 29 | </body></html> | 53 | project pages is also hosted here. |
| 54 | SystemTap is expected to use kprobes as a lower layer. | ||
| 55 | </p> | ||
| 56 | </div> | ||
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| 67 | <div id="footer"><a href="http://sourceware.org/">sourceware.org</a> | ||
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| 70 | </body> | ||
| 71 | </html> | ||