Documentation

Many examples and presentations are in our community wiki.

Demo

Some example scripts and description of how they work.

• Description of the programs.
• top.stp - print the top twenty system calls.
• prof.stp - simple profiling.
• keyhack.stp - modifying variables in the kernel.
• kmalloc.stp - statistics example.
• kmalloc2.stp - example using arrays of statistics.

All examples

All examples (as included in systemtap sources/installation):

• All Examples
• Examples by Subsystem
• Examples by Keyword

Tutorial

• html
• pdf

Language Reference

• html
• pdf

Man Pages

• stap
• staprun
• Systemtap Examples
• Systemtap Functions
• Systemtap Probe Points
• IO scheduler probe points
• Network device probe points
• NFS client side probe points
• NFS server side probe points
• Pagefault probe points
• Process probe points
• RPC probe points
• SCSI probe points
• Signal probe points
• Socket probe points
• TCP probe points
• UDP probe points

Tapset Development

• Tapset Developer's Guide

Older Stuff

May be a bit out-of-date.

• Original architecture paper (July 2005).
• Article on Systemtap in Red Hat Magazine (Sep 2005)
• Paper presented at OLS 2005. Slides are here.
• April 2005 face-to-face meeting notes.
• kprobes status