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Hi All, I''ve got a problem when I have USDT probes in a static library and in the application code outside of the library. I build the static library containing some USDT probes, glomming everything together (ld -r) before creating the .a file to preserve the probe symbols. This all works fine. I build an application which also has some...

How do I query an application to see if it supports any USDT probe points?

Hi people, When working with some usdt C++ probes we have come across a few issues. Controlling USDT Function name: Putting in usdt probes into C++ code gives you the mangled enclosing function name for the probes Function name. Working around this can be a pain. You need to wrap your usdt probes in extern C functions and call these...

Hi, As I''ve discussed before whenever we add USDT probes to a C++ function and call dtrace -l we get the mangled C++ name for the dtrace function, being listed :( Now the point of USDT probes is to abstract a higher level semantic construct for users to make use of. Surely it is not meant to be listing Unstable Interfaces (implementation det...

...eekend from one of the Gentoo Linux X maintainers that one of their users has found a failure mode: "There''s another program out there called dtrace, which is an isdn tracer. If it''s installed, xorg-server compiles fail." Is there a better way to check for dtrace USDT provider build support for autoconf? I''ve been trying to avoid making it just check OS type so that we can support the probes on any OS that DTrace may be ported to. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Hi, I''m posting a question hoping someone will know the answer off hand thereby reducing my search time. :-) With USDT probes, the tracepoint is only installed by libdtrace itself, never by the drti ioctl. So whenever I run a program with an USDT probe, no tracepoint is installed. Only after I run the dtrace command the tracepoint is actually installed on the victim process. My question is about how Solaris discov...

Hello, If I release a new kernel module, do I need to release a SDT provider with it? Just like what "mdb" does - a mdb module together with the associated kernel module. Is it a "MUST" or a "OPTION"? Also what''s the requirement of USDT and user application? Is it encouraged or not to have many probes inside the code? Can I define my own "action" for my own "provider"? Thanks. This message posted from opensolaris.org

I added a couple of static probes to Firefox to measure actual work done. I could have used a pid$target probe with a function name but work is done within an if statement, which is where I placed the static probes. I''m wondering about my use, though. Is the following significantly more efficient than pid$target::FunName:entry and return? I heard somewhere that $target does not

Author: ahl Repository: /hg/zfs-crypto/gate Revision: b1ab97f77b0ad2a4fe2a43d9c5aac7259840bb90 Log message: 6370454 dtrace should support USDT probes in static functions Files: update: usr/src/lib/libdtrace/common/dt_dof.c update: usr/src/lib/libdtrace/common/dt_link.c update: usr/src/lib/libdtrace/common/dt_provider.c update: usr/src/lib/libdtrace/common/dt_provider.h

Author: ahl Repository: /hg/zfs-crypto/gate Revision: 72ce7e116da4db6c063a5c3c3f1bec23ce3ca69a Log message: 6395902 use of USDT probes can cause plockstat and other scripts to fail Files: update: usr/src/lib/libdtrace/common/dt_pid.c

I have inserted some probes in my application, and it works great in the "debug build" I have been using. So I wanted to look at the "overhead" introduced by inactive dtrace probes in my application. I am using the Sun Studio 11 compiler, so I added the following options: -xO5 -g0 -xbuiltin But this breaks the linking of my application. Undefined first

Suppose I have a USDT probe in Firefox and that I''m trying to catch the startup with a probe like this: proc:::exec-success /execname == "firefox-bin"/ { start = timestamp; } and stop tracing when Firefox hits this USDT probe: mozilla:::main-entry { exit(0); } How do I put the running firefo...

[Perhaps someone could rename this list to dtrace-matt-problems-discuss?] If I run this script against my binary (which contains a USDT probe called ''concurrentq-latency''): ::: / probename == "concurrentq-latency" / { printf("[%s]:[%s]:[%s]\n", probeprov, probefunc, probename); } I get this output: dtrace: script ''testq.d'' matched 46056 probes dtrace: pid 26257 has exited...

Hi, I want to use USDT in my java applications. Please tell me how to achieve this. I am comfortable with SDT in C application. I am using Solaris Sparc10 with Generic_120011-14 version. Do I need to update my machine for this? Thanks, Ajit -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Hello, I am trying to get documentation how how this lazyloading happens when you are dealing with dtrace probes being added to user applications. In particular if it somehow avoids the overhead of registering dtrace probes when they aren''t needed, how does it know if they are needed, etc... thanks, Robert

while trying to use the USDT made available to us in Postgresql database I have problems enabling them. On my database server I ran 1024+ PG processes (1024 clients). The server is a 8 core T2000 @1000MHz. 32GB. 7 storage arrays. Solaris 10 Update 4. Home compiled PG 8.3 beta 1 (optimized binary for T1 chip) with DTrace prob...

Does anyone has any ideas about this problem? 2008/1/15, ?? TaoJie <eulertao at gmail.com>: > > Hi all: > > I''m working on revealing system performance now. > My testing program is an infinite loop. Inside the loop, it will do some > mathematical opertaions and call function callee(), then go to the next > loop. > I install a alarm(30) in the program. It

I was looking at mod_trace (http://prefetch.net/projects/apache_modtrace/index.html ) and playing with getting it to compile on OS X. When building for x86_64 with -arch x86_64 we get bad instructions generated: gcc -o foo -arch x86_64 foo.c /var/folders/rV/rV1x2DafFr0R6tGG+1bbk++++TM/-Tmp-//ccnykQ1o.s:11:bad register name `%%esi)'' Using gcc -S I can definitely see we are not

Hi, Is there a specific reason the DTRACEHIOC_REMOVE ioctl is deprecated? I found I needed to use it in my Perl USDT provider code[*], which creates providers dynamically at runtime. I wonder if I''m missing a better way of doing the same thing. The situation I''m handling with the remove operation is killing and recreating a perl interpreter in the same process, which Apache/mod_perl does on sta...

...helper for Python into the upstream Python sources. The method for doing this on Solaris is to compile the phelper.d script containing the helper into an object file using "dtrace -G". dtrace on OS X does not have "dtrace -G", just "dtrace -h". This works fine for USDT probes, but I am at a loss on how to compile ustack() helpers. Does anyone have some ideas? You can see the ongoing conversation on the Python bug tracker: http://bugs.python.org/issue4111 -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma th...