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6 qemu-trace-stap - QEMU SystemTap trace tool
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9 qemu-trace-stap [GLOBAL-OPTIONS] COMMAND [COMMAND-OPTIONS] ARGS...
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12 The qemu-trace-stap program facilitates tracing of the execution of
13 QEMU emulators using SystemTap.
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15 It is required to have the SystemTap runtime environment installed to
16 use this program, since it is a wrapper around execution of the stap
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20 The following global options may be used regardless of which command is
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23 --verbose, -v
24 Display verbose information about command execution.
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26 The following commands are valid:
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28 list BINARY PATTERN...
29 List all the probe names provided by BINARY that match PATTERN.
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31 If BINARY is not an absolute path, it will be located by search‐
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34 PATTERN is a plain string that is used to filter the results of
35 this command. It may optionally contain a * wildcard to facili‐
36 tate matching multiple probes without listing each one explic‐
37 itly. Multiple PATTERN arguments may be given, causing listing
38 of probes that match any of the listed names. If no PATTERN is
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41 For example, to list all probes available in the qemu-sys‐
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44 $ qemu-trace-stap list qemu-system-x86_64
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46 To filter the list to only cover probes related to QEMU's cryp‐
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49 $ qemu-trace-stap list /opt/qemu/4.0.0/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 'qcrypto*'
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51 run OPTIONS BINARY PATTERN...
52 Run a trace session, printing formatted output any time a
53 process that is executing BINARY triggers a probe matching PAT‐
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56 If BINARY is not an absolute path, it will be located by search‐
57 ing the directories listed in the $PATH environment variable.
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59 PATTERN is a plain string that matches a probe name shown by the
60 LIST command. It may optionally contain a * wildcard to facili‐
61 tate matching multiple probes without listing each one explic‐
62 itly. Multiple PATTERN arguments may be given, causing all
63 matching probes to be monitored. At least one PATTERN is re‐
64 quired, since stap is not capable of tracing all known QEMU
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67 Invocation of this command does not need to be synchronized with
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74 --pid=PID, -p PID
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78 For example, to monitor all processes executing qemu-sys‐
79 tem-x86_64 as found on $PATH, displaying all I/O related probes:
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81 $ qemu-trace-stap run qemu-system-x86_64 'qio*'
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83 To monitor only the QEMU process with PID 1732
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85 $ qemu-trace-stap run --pid=1732 qemu-system-x86_64 'qio*'
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91 $ qemu-trace-stap -v run /opt/qemu/4.0.0/qemu-system-x86_64 'qio*'
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