From 1680b32a98e2a3c11f829cd828fb2c1a3ae9ae10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Evgeny Vereshchagin Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 09:11:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Point people to tools/old --- man/man8/memleak.8 | 1 + man/man8/offcputime.8 | 1 + man/man8/stackcount.8 | 1 + man/man8/stacksnoop.8 | 1 + 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/man8/memleak.8 b/man/man8/memleak.8 index 6ff092d..c8bf241 100644 --- a/man/man8/memleak.8 +++ b/man/man8/memleak.8 @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ memleak may introduce significant overhead when tracing processes that allocate and free many blocks very quickly. See the OVERHEAD section below. This tool only works on Linux 4.6+. Stack traces are obtained using the new BPF_STACK_TRACE` APIs. +For kernels older than 4.6, see the version under tools/old. .SH REQUIREMENTS CONFIG_BPF and bcc. .SH OPTIONS diff --git a/man/man8/offcputime.8 b/man/man8/offcputime.8 index 0c6f75a..5fd6261 100644 --- a/man/man8/offcputime.8 +++ b/man/man8/offcputime.8 @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ See http://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/offcpuflamegraphs.html This tool only works on Linux 4.6+. It uses the new `BPF_STACK_TRACE` table APIs to generate the in-kernel stack traces. +For kernels older than 4.6, see the version under tools/old. .SH REQUIREMENTS CONFIG_BPF and bcc. .SH OPTIONS diff --git a/man/man8/stackcount.8 b/man/man8/stackcount.8 index ca22859..c3a9146 100644 --- a/man/man8/stackcount.8 +++ b/man/man8/stackcount.8 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ The pattern is a string with optional '*' wildcards, similar to file globbing. If you'd prefer to use regular expressions, use the \-r option. This tool only works on Linux 4.6+. Stack traces are obtained using the new `BPF_STACK_TRACE` APIs. +For kernels older than 4.6, see the version under tools/old. .SH REQUIREMENTS CONFIG_BPF and bcc. diff --git a/man/man8/stacksnoop.8 b/man/man8/stacksnoop.8 index 6fae3c2..7cfa8a1 100644 --- a/man/man8/stacksnoop.8 +++ b/man/man8/stacksnoop.8 @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ calls, and is a quick way to investigate low frequency kernel functions and their cause. For high frequency kernel functions, see stackcount. This tool only works on Linux 4.6+. Stack traces are obtained using the new BPF_STACK_TRACE` APIs. +For kernels older than 4.6, see the version under tools/old. .SH REQUIREMENTS CONFIG_BPF and bcc. .SH OPTIONS -- 2.7.4