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This is a belated heads up to let you know that I have merged DTrace to the releng7 branch in the nick of time before the feature freeze for 7.1. Those astute mailing list readers will note that the commit message appears to have gone missing. Well, either the dog ate it or subversion decided that it was for certain eyes only (and not yours, or mine). I have added a note to src/UPDATING

Hi all, OK, so this at first looked like a clear cut "Don''t do it, or at worst handle the results" issue my customer has come to me with, but the more we discuss it, the more it looks like we should have better ways of dealing with this issue. > We have user defined dtrace probe points in the application which use > as parameter 64 bit values: > > provider adv {

Hi, I am trying to trace some functions that are executed at detach time, and it seems that just having dtrace around to instrument the module is causing a short circuit, whereas modunload will return (device busy). I understand that this makes sense, but how can I get around this if I want to trace stuff at detach time? Thanks, --S

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?

I have found that pid provider can not create memcpy:return probe for 64bit process on snv_110. For example, the pid is 10603, I will have following output for dtrace command: #dtrace -n pid10603:libc.so.1:memcpy:return dtrace: invalid probe specifier pid10603:libc.so.1:memcpy:return: probe description pid10603:libc.so.1:memcpy:return does not match any probes This just

Hi, I would like to know why dtrace -l |grep plockstat show plockstat28099 lines. Process with pid 28099 is a java process. Why can I not examine other processes with the plockstat provider? Is it a java startup option? Regards Hans -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

All, With Jon Haslam''s exciting news about the DTrace doc wiki (if you haven''t seen it yet, make your way to http://wikis.sun.com/display/DTrace), and with some of the discussion with the Apple folks, I''m wondering if the time isn''t right for something of a DTrace summit, perhaps as an unconference. The idea here would not be a DTrace user group (though that

Hi Dean, I haven't looked very closely at XRay so far, but I'm wondering if making CTF (common trace format, e.g. see http://diamon.org/ctf/) the default format for XRay traces would be useful? It seems it'd be nice to be able to reuse some of the tools that already exist for CTF, such as a graphical viewer (http://tracecompass.org/) or a converter library

I have a script where I can freely reference struct nameidata*, struct vnode*, etc. on Snow Leopard. How does DTrace know about these data types? I understand things like #pragma D depends_on library darwin.d where darwin.d has typedefs. I can''t find definitions of nameidata and vnode in any D scripts, though. How does it work? Thanks, Joel --- firefox for android!

Hello everybody! How do people generate the Compact Type Format (CTF) section? Do you have a special parser or employ gcc debug information? Is there any open utility to do this job? Best regards, Yaroslav

I recently did a backport of a couple of networking bug fixes from s10x_u4_b6 to s10x_u3_b10. I patched just /platform/i86pc/kernel/unix and /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix in my existing u3 OS image and I''m seeing this dtrace problem when running any dtrace script: NODE hcb101 ~ $ ./tcpstat.sh dtrace: failed to compile script /dev/fd/10: "/usr/lib/dtrace/procfs.d", line

Hi llvm-dev, Recently, we've committed the beginnings of the llvm-xray [0] tool which allows for conveniently working with both XRay-instrumented libraries as well as XRay trace/log files. In the course of the review for the conversion tool [1] which turns a binary/raw XRay log file into YAML for human consumption purposes, a question arose as to how we intend to allow users to develop tools

[1] Predicates in one-liners I would like to list the probe modules in my executable and then dynamically create a dscript to trace execution of those modules alone (by excluding the 3rd party and system libraries). I tried the below script without success. The conditional given in the predicate is not taking effect. Why is this so ? $ dtrace -ln ''pid$target:::

Hi all, We just got a shiny new T5440, and one of the first things I noticed (besides the insane number of hardware contexts), is that dtrace takes 30 seconds to a minute to fire up scripts with 5-6 probes, where our T5220 usually takes under a second. Shutdown is similar, though slightly faster. This is mostly annoying because it takes so long to attach that it''s hard to tell when

Tracers, Good news! The Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide has entered the participation age at last and has been converted into wiki format. The new and shiny guide can be found at: http://wikis.sun.com/display/DTrace/Documentation The guide has fallen behind with developments in DTrace since it was first released and needs some revising and some bug fixing as well. However, now that it''s

Hello, In November 2005, there was a discussion on this list regarding code blocks. The suggestion was to use: ```(test) here it is ``` which becomes: <pre class="test"><code> here it is </code></pre> However, a textile format for this already exists elsewhere (see [1]), which I think is more appropriate: bc.(test) here it is Note the similarity between bc.

I want to go a lot deeper with my tracing of MySQL and to do so I want to look into MySQL Thread Descriptors (class THD). Inside is a great bulk of information utilized by a great many of the core functions within MySQL... I really want to get in there. So far I''ve had no luck though. It''s a C++ class, and I''m afraid that I''m approaching it like a C struct,

Tracing Fans, I know it''s been a long time in coming but the CPU Performance Counter (CPC) provider is almost here! The code is currently in for review and a proposed architecture document is attached here for review. Any and all feedback/questions on the proposed implementation is welcome. Thanks. Jon. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text

Hello all, I have been taking basic steps with DTrace and subscribed today to this list. I have written a simple DTrace script to trace all the function entry/exit from a given function: #pragma D option flowindent pid$1::*mysql_select*:entry { self -> start = vtimestamp ; } pid$1::*mysql_select*:return /self -> start/ { self -> start =0 ; } pid$1:::entry, pid$1:::return

DTraceToolkit has a dtrace script (Proc/pidpersec.d) that refers to a variable mpid as below profile:::tick-1sec { printf("%-22Y %8d %6d\n", walltimestamp, `mpid, pids); pids = 0; } Where is `mpid getting picked from (it isn''t declared anywhere else)? What does the character ` in `mpid signify? I do not see any reference to this variable in the dtrace