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TAPSET::MEMORY(3stap)TAPSET::MEMORY(3stap)tapset::memory - systemtap memory tapset
This family of probe points is used to probe memory-related events.vm_fault_contains Test return value for page fault reason Seefunction::vm_fault_contains(3stap) for details.vm.pagefault Records that a page fault occurred Seeprobe::vm.pagefault(3stap) for details.vm.pagefault.return Indicates what type of fault occurred Seeprobe::vm.pagefault.return(3stap) for details.addr_to_node Returns which node a given address belongs to within a NUMA system Seefunction::addr_to_node(3stap) for details.vm.write_shared Attempts at writing to a shared page Seeprobe::vm.write_shared(3stap) for details.vm.write_shared_copy Page copy for shared page write Seeprobe::vm.write_shared_copy(3stap) for details.vm.mmap Fires when an mmap is requested Seeprobe::vm.mmap(3stap) for details.vm.munmap Fires when an munmap is requested Seeprobe::vm.munmap(3stap) for details.vm.brkFires when a brk is requested (i.e. the heap will be resized) Seeprobe::vm.brk(3stap) for details.vm.oom_kill Fires when a thread is selected for termination by the OOM killer Seeprobe::vm.oom_kill(3stap) for details.vm.kmalloc Fires when kmalloc is requested Seeprobe::vm.kmalloc(3stap) for details.vm.kmem_cache_alloc Fires when kmem_cache_alloc is requested Seeprobe::vm.kmem_cache_alloc(3stap) for details.vm.kmalloc_node Fires when kmalloc_node is requested Seeprobe::vm.kmalloc_node(3stap) for details.vm.kmem_cache_alloc_node Fires when kmem_cache_alloc_node is requested Seeprobe::vm.kmem_cache_alloc_node(3stap) for details.vm.kfree Fires when kfree is requested Seeprobe::vm.kfree(3stap) for details.vm.kmem_cache_free Fires when kmem_cache_free is requested Seeprobe::vm.kmem_cache_free(3stap) for details.
function::vm_fault_contains(3stap),function::addr_to_node(3stap),probe::vm.pagefault(3stap),probe::vm.pagefault.return(3stap),probe::vm.write_shared(3stap),probe::vm.write_shared_copy(3stap),probe::vm.mmap(3stap),probe::vm.munmap(3stap),probe::vm.brk(3stap),probe::vm.oom_kill(3stap),probe::vm.kmalloc(3stap),probe::vm.kmem_cache_alloc(3stap),probe::vm.kmalloc_node(3stap),probe::vm.kmem_cache_alloc_node(3stap),probe::vm.kfree(3stap),probe::vm.kmem_cache_free(3stap),stap(1),stapprobes(3stap)
This page is part of thesystemtap (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 2025-08-11. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the repository was 2025-07-24.) If you discover 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 isnot part of the original manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.orgSystemTap Tapset Reference April 2025TAPSET::MEMORY(3stap)Pages that refer to this page:function::addr_to_node(3stap), function::vm_fault_contains(3stap), probe::vm.brk(3stap), probe::vm.kfree(3stap), probe::vm.kmalloc(3stap), probe::vm.kmalloc_node(3stap), probe::vm.kmem_cache_alloc(3stap), probe::vm.kmem_cache_alloc_node(3stap), probe::vm.kmem_cache_free(3stap), probe::vm.mmap(3stap), probe::vm.munmap(3stap), probe::vm.oom_kill(3stap), probe::vm.pagefault(3stap), probe::vm.pagefault.return(3stap), probe::vm.write_shared(3stap), probe::vm.write_shared_copy(3stap)
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