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Revision as of 15:03, 14 September 2009
Installation
Installation of the Eclipse SystemTap plugin will be done through the yum repository. Users can simply type from command-line :
'yum install systemtap-eclipse'
General Usage
All the SystemTap plugins are accessible from the C/C++ perspective, by right clicking on C/C++ source file in the editor view, or by right clicking on the corresponding binary in the package explorer view.
Features
A few customized scripts will be made available, some built-in and others ready for download.
Call Graph
Renders a visual function trace of the program, tracking selected or all functions.
This feature comes with a few different display options and various other information such as the percentage time spent in a function and the number of times a function is called. All of these settings can be changed and accessed through the SystemTap view menu.
![](/w/uploads/d/dc/Stapgraph_menu.png)
Also, the following types of views are available to see the call hierarchy of the functions belonging to the executable.