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.TH KTAP "1" "April 2016" "ktap 0.4+git20160427-1" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
ktap \- lightweight script-based dynamic tracing tool for Linux
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ktap
[\fI\,options\/\fR] \fI\,file \/\fR[\fI\,script args\/\fR] \fI\,-- cmd \/\fR[\fI\,args\/\fR]
.br
.B ktap
[\fI\,options\/\fR] \fI\,-e one-liner  -- cmd \/\fR[\fI\,args\/\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.SS "Options and arguments:"
.TP
\fB\-o\fR file
: send script output to file, instead of stderr
.TP
\fB\-p\fR pid
: specific tracing pid
.TP
\fB\-C\fR cpu
: cpu to monitor in system\-wide
.TP
\fB\-T\fR
: show timestamp for event
.TP
\fB\-V\fR
: show version
.TP
\fB\-v\fR
: enable verbose mode
.TP
\fB\-q\fR
: suppress start tracing message
.TP
\fB\-d\fR
: dry run mode(register NULL callback to perf events)
.TP
\fB\-s\fR
: simple event tracing
.TP
\fB\-b\fR
: list byte codes
.TP
\fB\-le\fR [glob]
: list pre\-defined events in system
.TP
\fB\-lf\fR DSO
: list available functions from DSO
.TP
\fB\-lm\fR DSO
: list available sdt notes from DSO
.TP
file
: program read from script file
.TP
\fB\-\-\fR cmd [args]
: workload to tracing
.SH NOTES
To make ktap work, firstly you need to load "ktapvm" module:

       modprobe ktapvm