X-Git-Url: http://git.liburcu.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fman%2Flttng-ust.3.txt;h=2534612a7ecb9ea4d866ea237f80d2437665cb9a;hb=df807054e56e2b476278b1da34de7204e1925452;hp=9f9a1d53a9bd2269088f620c4ec7035cd31deac5;hpb=702d1b7d91bc75f4fc01415fc625af1b834ddec4;p=lttng-ust.git diff --git a/doc/man/lttng-ust.3.txt b/doc/man/lttng-ust.3.txt index 9f9a1d53..2534612a 100644 --- a/doc/man/lttng-ust.3.txt +++ b/doc/man/lttng-ust.3.txt @@ -790,11 +790,67 @@ Only available on IA-32 and x86-64 architectures. `vpid`:: Virtual process ID: process ID as seen from the point of view of - the process namespace. + the current man:pid_namespaces(7). `vtid`:: Virtual thread ID: thread ID as seen from the point of view of - the process namespace. + the current man:pid_namespaces(7). + +The following man:namespaces(7) context fields are supported by LTTng-UST: + +`cgroup_ns`:: + Cgroup root directory namespace: inode number of the current + man:cgroup_namespaces(7) in the proc filesystem. + +`ipc_ns`:: + System V IPC, POSIX message queues namespace: inode number of the + current man:ipc_namespaces(7) namespace in the proc filesystem. + +`mnt_ns`:: + Mount points namespace: inode number of the current + man:mount_namespaces(7) in the proc filesystem. + +`net_ns`:: + Network devices, stacks, ports namespace: inode number of the + current man:network_namespaces(7) in the proc filesystem. + +`pid_ns`:: + Process IDs namespace: inode number of the current + man:pid_namespaces(7) in the proc filesystem. + +`user_ns`:: + User and group IDs namespace: inode number of the current + man:user_namespaces(7) in the proc filesystem. + +`uts_ns`:: + Hostname and NIS domain name namespace: inode number of the + current man:uts_namespaces(7) in the proc filesystem. + +The following man:credentials(7) context fields are supported by LTTng-UST: + +`vuid`:: + Virtual real user ID: real user ID as seen from the point of view of + the current man:user_namespaces(7). + +`vgid`:: + Virtual real group ID: real group ID as seen from the point of view of + the current man:user_namespaces(7). + +`veuid`:: + Virtual effective user ID: effective user ID as seen from the point of + view of the current man:user_namespaces(7). + +`vegid`:: + Virtual effective group ID: effective group ID as seen from the point of + view of the current man:user_namespaces(7). + +`vsuid`:: + Virtual saved set-user ID: saved set-user ID as seen from the point of + view of the current man:user_namespaces(7). + +`vsgid`:: + Virtual saved set-group ID: saved set-group ID as seen from the point of + view of the current man:user_namespaces(7). [[state-dump]] @@ -1022,7 +1078,7 @@ if (lttng_ust_loaded) { EXAMPLE ------- NOTE: A few examples are available in the -https://github.com/lttng/lttng-ust/tree/master/doc/examples[`doc/examples`] +https://github.com/lttng/lttng-ust/tree/v{lttng_version}/doc/examples[`doc/examples`] directory of LTTng-UST's source tree. This example shows all the features documented in the previous @@ -1293,11 +1349,15 @@ are located in a specific directory under `$LTTNG_HOME` (or `$HOME` if `$LTTNG_HOME` is not set). `LTTNG_UST_ALLOW_BLOCKING`:: - If set, allow application to retry event tracing when there's + If set, allow the application to retry event tracing when there's no space left for the event record in the sub-buffer, therefore effectively blocking the application until space is made available - or timeout is reached. This only has effect on channels with - `blocking-timeout` set. + or the configured timeout is reached. ++ +To allow an application to block during tracing, you also need to +specify a blocking timeout when you create a channel with the +nloption:--blocking-timeout option of the man:lttng-enable-channel(1) +command. + This option can be useful in workloads generating very large trace data throughput, where blocking the application is an acceptable trade-off to @@ -1310,7 +1370,7 @@ affect application timings. Path to the shared object which acts as the clock override plugin. An example of such a plugin can be found in the LTTng-UST documentation under - https://github.com/lttng/lttng-ust/tree/master/doc/examples/clock-override[`examples/clock-override`]. + https://github.com/lttng/lttng-ust/tree/v{lttng_version}/doc/examples/clock-override[`examples/clock-override`]. `LTTNG_UST_DEBUG`:: If set, enable `liblttng-ust`'s debug and error output. @@ -1319,7 +1379,7 @@ affect application timings. Path to the shared object which acts as the `getcpu()` override plugin. An example of such a plugin can be found in the LTTng-UST documentation under - https://github.com/lttng/lttng-ust/tree/master/doc/examples/getcpu-override[`examples/getcpu-override`]. + https://github.com/lttng/lttng-ust/tree/v{lttng_version}/doc/examples/getcpu-override[`examples/getcpu-override`]. `LTTNG_UST_REGISTER_TIMEOUT`:: Waiting time for the _registration done_ session daemon command