NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | LANGUAGE | SEE ALSO | BUGS | COLOPHON

STAPREF(1)                 General Commands Manual                STAPREF(1)

NAME         top

       stapref - systemtap language reference

SYNOPSIS         top

       stapref

DESCRIPTION         top

       The reference for the systemtap scripting language.

LANGUAGE         top

       Keywords
              · break
              · continue
              · delete
              · else
              · exit
              · foreach
              · for
              · function
              · global
              · private
              · if
              · in
              · next
              · probe
              · return
              · try/catch
              · while
       Data Types and Operators
              Integers
              · var1 = 5
              · global var2 = 10
              Strings
              · var1 = "string1"
              · global var2 = "string2"
              Associative Arrays
              · global array1[]
              · global array2[SIZE]
              · array[index] = 5
              Context Variables
              · $var
              · $var$ (pretty printed string form)
              Binary numeric operators
              · * / % + - << >> & ^ | && ||
              Binary string operators
              · . (string concatenation)
              Numeric assignment operators
              · = += -= *= /= %= >>= <<= &= ^= |=
              String assignment operators
              · = .=
              Unary numeric operators
              · + - ! ~ ++ --
              Numeric & string comparison operators
              · < > <= >= == !=
              Regular expression matching operators
              · =~ !~
              Ternary operator
              · cond ? exp1 : exp2
              Grouping operator
              · ( expression )
              Array operators
              · array[index] (array read/write)
              · [index] in array
              Aggregation operator
              · var <<< value
       Statements
              Jump Statements
              · continue
              · break
              · next
              · return expression
              · try statement catch (message)
              Selection Statements
              · if (expression) statement
              · else statement
              Iteration Statements
              · foreach (variable in array) statement
              · foreach ([var1,var2,...] in array) statement
              · for (expression; expression; expression) statement
              · while (expression) statement
              Declaration Statements
              · function name (variable : type, ...) { statement }
              · function name : type (variable : type, ...) { statement }
              · function name : type (variable : type, ...) %{ c_statement %}
              · probe probepoint { statement }
              · probe label = probepoint { statement }
       Lexical Structure
              Comments
              · # ... comment
              · // ... comment
              · /* ... comment ... */
              Preprocessor
              · %( expression %? true_tokens %: false_tokens %)
              · @define label (variable, ...) %{ statement %}
       Builtin Functions
              Aggregation Builtin Functions
              · @avg (variable)
              · @count (variable)
              · @hist_linear (variable, N, N, N)
              · @hist_log (variable)
              · @max (variable)
              · @min (variable)
              · @sum (variable)
              Output Builtin Functions
              · print (variable)
              · printf (format:string, variable, ...)
                where format is of the form: %[flags][width][.precision][length]specifier
              · printd (delimiter:string, variable, ...)
              · printdln (delimiter:string, variable, ...)
              · println ()
              · sprint:string (variable)
              · sprintf:string (format:string, variable, ...)
              Variable Access Builtin Functions
              · @cast (variable, "type_name"[, "module"])
              · @defined (variable)
       Probepoints
              Some of the more commonly used probepoints
              · kernel.function(PATTERN) kernel.function(PATTERN).call
              · kernel.function(PATTERN).return
              · kernel.FUNCTION (PATTERN).return.maxactive(VALUE)
              · kernel.FUNCTION (PATTERN).inline
              · kernel.FUNCTION (PATTERN).label(LPATTERN)
              · module(MPATTERN).FUNCTION (PATTERN)
              · module(MPATTERN).FUNCTION (PATTERN).call
              · module(MPATTERN).FUNCTION (PATTERN).return.maxactive(VALUE)
              · module(MPATTERN).FUNCTION (PATTERN).inline
              · kernel.statement(PATTERN)
              · kernel.statement(ADDRESS).absolute
              · module(MPATTERN).statement(PATTERN)
              · kprobe.FUNCTION (FUNCTION)
              · kprobe.FUNCTION (FUNCTION).return
              · kprobe.module(NAME).FUNCTION (FUNCTION)
              · kprobe.module(NAME).FUNCTION (FUNCTION).return
              · kprobe.statement(ADDRESS).absolute
              · process.begin process("PATH").begin
              · process(PID).begin process.thread.begin
              · process("PATH").thread.begin
              · process(PID).thread.begin
              · process.end
              · process("PATH").end
              · process(PID).end
              · process.thread.end
              · process("PATH").thread.end
              · process(PID).thread.end
              · process("PATH").syscall
              · process(PID).syscall
              · process.syscall.return
              · process("PATH").syscall.return
              · process(PID).syscall.return
              · process("PATH").FUNCTION ("NAME")
              · process("PATH").statement("*@FILE.c:123")
              · process("PATH").FUNCTION ("*").return
              · process("PATH").FUNCTION ("myfun").label("foo")
              · process("PATH").mark("LABEL")
              · java("PNAME").class("CLASSNAME").method("PATTERN")
              · java("PNAME").class("CLASSNAME").method("PATTERN").return
              · java(PID).class("CLASSNAME").method("PATTERN")
              · java(PID).class("CLASSNAME").method("PATTERN").return
              · python2.module("MODULENAME").function("PATTERN")
              · python2.module("MODULENAME").function("PATTERN").return
              · python3.module("MODULENAME").function("PATTERN")
              · python3.module("MODULENAME").function("PATTERN").return
       Tapset Functions
              Some of the more commonly used tapset functions
              · addr:long ()
              · backtrace:string ()
              · caller:string ()
              · caller_addr:long ()
              · cmdline_arg:string (N:long)
              · cmdline_args:string (N:long,m:long,delim:string)
              · cmdline_str:string ()
              · env_var:string (name:string)
              · execname:string ()
              · int_arg:long (N:long)
              · isinstr:long(s1:string,s2:string)
              · long_arg:long (N:long)
              · modname:string ()
              · module_name:string ()
              · pid:long ()
              · pn:string ()
              · pointer_arg:string (N:long)
              · pp:string ()
              · print_backtrace ()
              · probefunc:string ()
              · register:long(name:string)
              · str_replace:string(prnt_str:string,srch_str:string,rplc_str:string)
              · stringat:long(str:string,pos:long)
              · strlen:long(str:string)
              · strtol:long(str:string,base:long)
              · substr:string(str:string,start:long,length:long)
              · user_long:long(addr:long)
              · user_string:string(addr:long)

SEE ALSO         top

       stap(1)

BUGS         top

       Use the Bugzilla link of the project web page or our mailing list.
       http://sourceware.org/systemtap/ ,<systemtap@sourceware.org>.

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the systemtap (a tracing and live-system
       analysis tool) project.  Information about the project can be found
       at ⟨https://sourceware.org/systemtap/⟩.  If you have a bug report for
       this manual page, send it to systemtap@sourceware.org.  This page was
       obtained from the project's upstream Git repository 
       ⟨git://sourceware.org/git/systemtap.git⟩ on 2017-07-05.  If you dis‐
       cover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you
       believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or
       you have corrections or improvements to the information in this
       COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail
       to man-pages@man7.org
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