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N_conreq:entry { self->x=1; calledaddr=(struct xaddrf *)arg3; callingaddr=(struct xaddrf *)arg4; trace(calledaddr->link_id); tracemem(calledaddr->DTE_MAC.lsap_add, 80); trace(callingaddr->link_id); tracemem(callingaddr->DTE_MAC.lsap_add, 80); } 0 -> N_conreq 255

Hi, This is not a DTrace technical question (so, please don''t flame me for it) :) This is regarding the DTrace (un)conference TShirt. I am curious to know what engine is it. Could not figure it out. Thanks and regards, Sanjeev. -- Solaris Revenue Products Engineering, India Engineering Center, Sun Microsystems India Pvt Ltd. Tel: x27521 +91 80 669 27521

So I realize this is somewhat stupid, and I''ve actually gotten myself out of kmdb to kill my dtrace script but this has happened in the past and I''m wondering if there''s any better way around it than hitting :c a bunch of times. Say you set a breakpoint() to fire in a common function. This will drop you into kmdb where you can do some debugging, you take a look around

I see Intel has released a new tool. Oh, it requires some patches to the kernel to record latency times. Good thing people don''t mind patching their kernels, eh? So who can write the equivalent latencytop.d the fastest? ;-) http://www.latencytop.org/ -- cburgess at qnx.com

G''Day Folks, I''ve finally typed up my classic DTrace demo, which I use to introduce people to DTrace (I delivered this at SOSUG#1), http://www.brendangregg.com/DTrace/dtracevstruss.html Here I create a fault and show the difficulty in analysing it using previous tools. Then I compare the impact of analysing the problem using both DTrace and truss. DTrace wins (a lot!).

DTrace folks, I''m pleased to introduce a potential new DTrace-sponsored project: the Erlang DTrace provider. To be good OpenSolaris citizens, we want to put the formation of this officially sponsored project to a vote -- as outlined in the OpenSolaris Constitution -- so here are the details for the new Project, as prepared by the Project Team: Name : Erlang DTrace Integration

As of patch 32953 dtrace support is in bleadperl (5.11.0). The probes are based on Alan Burlinson''s original blog post on the subject: http://blogs.sun.com/alanbur/date/20050909 By guarding the probes with PERL_SUB_*_ENABLED the performance hit is unmeasurable. All the necessary bits already existed in the wild. I just assembled them and made the necessary changes to

Hi all, There''s a dead thread about this back at http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5075157, but it would be really nice to have support for if/else control flow in actions. Reasons: 1. The ternary operator ?: is already there (though it doesn''t let you do anything with side effects) 2. The user can already write arbitrary and expensive non-cacheable predicates if

I''d like to see if we can use DTrace to as the kernel implementation of the BSD systrace security policy system (http://www.systrace.org). I don''t really want to port systrace to Solaris because I think with DTrace we already have all the necessary in kernel hooks to do this. With systrace you express things like: "httpd can bind to port 80 but not any other port, it

Hi Bryan, > Does that sit well with everyone? Seems fine to me. Just revisiting one of Dragan''s points, though (sorry if I missed the answer) - is there a reason for making this global (via a #pragma) rather than, say, simply providing two functions which print in the different orders? e.g. printa() for sort by sample, printak() for sort by key. My reason for wanting to do both in

Hello dtrace-discuss, Sometimes I want to run a script for some time and every n second output N top entries. trunc() isn''t suitable here as it also removed keys/values. I want it ''coz over time if I use sum() entries which are normally truncated can actually get to top over a time. Maybe printa() extension, something like: printa(@b[10]) - to output top 10? --

Unless I am missing something I cannot find a way to do a condtional check and handle it when a dtrace script is written with macros $1, $2 being passed to it, etc... In other words I have a dtrace script that can have parameters passed to it. Lets say $1 and $2 for example. I am trying to verity that there is or is not a value for $1 or $2 and adjust accordingly. I am finding that if use macros

There is a Slashdot discussion today titled "Cambridge Researcher Breaks OpenBSD Systrace". Slashdot anonymous member has a comment "Even Sun''s Dtrace might be vulnerable." I don''t think it is. Comments? Exploiting Concurrency Vulnerabilities in System Call Wrappers http://www.watson.org/~robert/2007woot/2007usenixwoot-exploitingconcurrency.pdf Abstract

Hi, Has something related to speculative tracing changed between s10 FCS and the more recent nevada builds ? I was trying the specopen.d script from the Dtrace guide on a nevada machine and it failed with : dtrace: failed to enable ''./spec.d'': DIF program content is invalid To try and narrow things down a bit I wrote the following short script. This works fine on s10, but

Howdy, Is there a method to get the number of elements in an aggregation? Are the results stored in an aggregation guaranteed to be in any type of order? Thanks for any insight, - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator http://daemons.net/~matty

hey.. I talked to my sysadmins about getting access to the dtrace_kernel role, and they said they were hesitant to give this out because they thought it was a security risk - ie: that you could use it for privilege escalation. How true is this? Is there a way to make it user safe? If not, why is it offered as an option for regular users? Thanks much, Ed -- This message posted from

Greetings, is there a way to specify probes and other dtrace operations via command line parameters, like " BEGIN { usr_exec=$$1; usr_syscall=$$2; } syscall::usr_syscall:entry /execname == usr_exec && guard++ == 0/ { ... " [this does not work] This would make it possible to create "generic" dtrace scripts. Otherwise, some shellscript with sed-magic would

hi folks we''re in final approach with Brendan''s work on the TCP and UDP providers, which have been discussed here previously in the context of the overall networking provider plan at: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+dtrace/NetworkProvider The specs have been updated to reflect recent changes and are available for review here:

I have added a specification of probes for the fibre channel COMSTAR port provider to the DTrace section of wikis.sun.com. The proposal may be found here: http://wikis.sun.com/display/DTrace/fibre+channel+Provider I welcome feedback regarding this proposal. Thanks, Sam

everyone, Just out of curiosity, I did a dtrace -n ''syscall:::entry { @num[execname, probefunc] = count(); }'' and looked at the entries produced by ''rm''. I see everything that rm did, *except* the unlinkat - which is unfortunate because I want to trace which processes have deleted which files. So - does dtrace contain unlinkat as a probe for a system call?