similar to: Fwd: Systemtap vs Dtrace web page corrections.

Not sure if this document will be shown to any dtrace users but here is a link if you want to comment on it http://sources.redhat.com/systemtap/wiki/SystemtapDtraceComparison I have went line by line and commented on its content and in accuracies and posted it both to the systemtap email list and my blog, you can see the blogged version at

My leaky memory says we moved entry-point into some form of debug record in the standard libraries, circa Solaris 8/9. Before that, my group maintained text files that listed all the entry-points and their parameters for libraries like libc.so, so that we could print out parameter values in apptrace(8). There''s a (small) chance the records are complete enough that dtrace could use the

G''Day Folks, Well, I had a weekend home in Sydney while inbetween flights and have knocked out a few programs. (I''ve been programming for 23 hours straight, so if there is something really dumb in one my scripts then please excuse me :) # socketsnoop.d UID PID DIR SIZE CMD 0 19886 W 64 ssh mars 0 19886 R 80 ssh mars 0 19915 W 0

Hi, I am adding DTrace probes within NFS v3 client. In my current implementation, I use some tsd_*() functions and kmem_zalloc() function. These functions might be heavy and affect the performance. I want to call this function only when DTrace is running or the DTrace probes are enable. So is there a way to check DTrace is running or DTrace probe is enabled? Regards, Danhua

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 details), such as the containing C++

On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:36:00 -0500 "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat.com> wrote: > Hi - > > > > Does this new blacklist cover enough that the kernel now survives a > > > broadly wildcarded perf-probe, e.g. over e.g. all of its kallsyms? > > > > That's generally the purpose of the annotations - if it doesn't then > > that's

Hi - > > Does this new blacklist cover enough that the kernel now survives a > > broadly wildcarded perf-probe, e.g. over e.g. all of its kallsyms? > > That's generally the purpose of the annotations - if it doesn't then > that's a bug. AFAIK, no kernel since kprobes was introduced has ever stood up to that test. perf probe lacks the wildcarding powers of

Hi - > > Does this new blacklist cover enough that the kernel now survives a > > broadly wildcarded perf-probe, e.g. over e.g. all of its kallsyms? > > That's generally the purpose of the annotations - if it doesn't then > that's a bug. AFAIK, no kernel since kprobes was introduced has ever stood up to that test. perf probe lacks the wildcarding powers of

Hi All, One of the customer is seeing the following error messages. He is using a S10U1 system with all latest patches. Dtrace script is attached. I am not seeing these error messages on S10U2 system. What could be the problem? Thanks, Gangadhar. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rroberto at njengsunu60-2:~$ dtrace -AFs /lib/svc/share/kcfd.d dtrace:

Author: bmc Repository: /hg/zfs-crypto/gate Revision: 213bfe03af413cdf71c523fb076aaa65a6306a7e Log message: 6256581 System got a hang or a panic with dtrace+kmdb 6264573 unanchored dtrace_getpcstack is rather imprecise toward function end 6289517 dtrace doesn''t like fd_intr anymore 6291378 dtrace helpers can interfere with the use of kmdb 6295554 dtrace doesn''t report

Dtrace does work on some workstation, such as as follows, ----------------------------------------------------------- bash-3.00# dtrace -s ./mem.d `pgrep test` dtrace: script ''./mem.d'' matched 5 probes ^C bash-3.00# uname -a SunOS ftp 5.10 Generic_118833-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100 bash-3.00# dtrace -V dtrace: Sun D 1.1

X.Org has adopted GNU autoconf as its build configuration mechanism, so when I integrated the dtrace probes, I checked to see if they should be built using this test, checking for the existence of a program named "dtrace" in the path: dnl Check for dtrace program (needed to build Xserver dtrace probes) AC_ARG_WITH(dtrace, AS_HELP_STRING([--with-dtrace=PATH], [Enable dtrace

Hi folks In linux kernel development, there is a debug tool called dprobe ,which can be used to dynamic insert the probes into the function of kernel source code and find what''s goning on.There is also a tool called systemtap which is based on dprobe and kernel debug info. Using the kprobes infrastructure, SystemTap is being developed to dynamically instrument the kernel and user

I''ve been trying to get access to a userland string that''s behind a second level pointer using DTrace, but I can''t seem to get it to work. I started with the example on the Team DTrace Tips and Tricks slides: trace(copyinstr(*(uintptr_t *)copyin(arg0, curpsinfo->pr_dmodel == PR_MODEL_ILP32 ? 4 : 8))); And when I couldn''t get it to work, I started

The earlier post with the Dtrace probes definition (sent on April 23) was only to solicit feedback from all prospective users of iSCSI DTrace probes. I will follow up shortly with an updated document requesting approval from the community. thanks Priya -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Dtrace provider for the COMSTAR iscsi Target Port Provider - Review Request Date: Thu, 23 Apr

I cannot seem to probe any of the Python interpreter''s C functions on OS X. $ sudo dtrace -n ''pid$target::PyEval_EvalFrameEx:entry'' -c python dtrace: invalid probe specifier pid$target::PyEval_EvalFrameEx:entry: probe description pid59706::PyEval_EvalFrameEx:entry does not match any probes These functions show up in ustack()s, but they do not appear to be available

Hi, Yufei: Thanks for your kind action. Let me centralize all the harm-hearted guys and involved alias in one email. Below is the answer of your question (Can you reply with more details on what failed? Does websphere use an IBM or Sun developed SDK? ) 1. Seems IBM bundled JDK can not detect agent options, like below: If use Sun JDK 1.5, no problem: /usr/jdk/jdk1.5.0_06/bin/java

I've integrated some DTrace [1] probes into R. Namely a probe which fires on fuction entry and return and one which fires before / after a garbage collection. Is there any interest in merging something like this into R-devel? If yes, I'd like to discuss which probes and what data would be useful / interesting from a developers standpoint. Greetings from Dortmund, Olaf Mersmann [1]

I''ve found what I think is a deadlock in the dtrace fork code. My only Solaris test machine is a single cpu box, where I have been unable to reproduce in the field so far. I''ve been able to reproduce on other platforms. Here is the scenario. You''ve got a target process, which has static probes. It is calling fork(), which causes it to end up at line 330 in fork.c:

I am currently working on adding DTrace probes we have for Memcached 1.2.5 to the new binary protocol in 1.3 branch. The problem I am facing is that I should have had a new variable into the probe. When we added the probes, all memcached keys would be zeroterminated ascii strings, but in the binary protocol it may not be zero-terminated. So what do I do? According to