Commit cbe10b5b authored by mcaleavya's avatar mcaleavya

updated man pages

parent ee5f823a
......@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ entered command may fail: this is just showing what was entered.
This program is also a basic example of eBPF/bcc and uprobes.
This makes use of a Linux 4.5 feature (bpf_perf_event_output());
for kernels older than 4.5, see the version under tools/old,
which uses an older mechanism
Since this uses BPF, only the root user can use this tool.
.SH REQUIREMENTS
CONFIG_BPF and bcc.
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......@@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ the I/O was first created (which usually identifies the responsible process).
This uses in-kernel eBPF maps to cache process details (PID and comm) by I/O
request, as well as a starting timestamp for calculating I/O latency.
This works by tracing various kernel blk_*() functions using dynamic tracing,
and will need updating to match any changes to these functions.
This makes use of a Linux 4.5 feature (bpf_perf_event_output());
for kernels older than 4.5, see the version under tools/old,
which uses an older mechanism
Since this uses BPF, only the root user can use this tool.
.SH REQUIREMENTS
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