Commit d5055ae2 authored by Brendan Gregg's avatar Brendan Gregg

update biosnoop man page

parent 97001f83
......@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ This is a basic block I/O (disk I/O) tracing tool, showing each I/O event
along with the issuing process ID, and the I/O latency. This can be used to
investigate disk I/O performance issues.
This tool currently works by dynamic tracing of the blk_account*() kernel
functions, which will need updating to match any changes to these functions
in future kernels versions.
Since this uses BPF, only the root user can use this tool.
.SH REQUIREMENTS
CONFIG_BPF and bpftrace.
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......@@ -57,4 +57,4 @@ Unstable - in development.
.SH AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg
.SH SEE ALSO
iosnoop(1)
biolatency(8)
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