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Preface

1.  About DTrace

2.  D Programming Language

3.  Aggregations

4.  Actions and Subroutines

5.  Buffers and Buffering

6.  Output Formatting

7.  Speculative Tracing

8.  dtrace(1M) Utility

9.  Scripting

10.  Options and Tunables

11.  Providers

dtrace Provider

BEGIN Probe

END Probe

ERROR Probe

Stability

lockstat Provider

Overview

Adaptive Lock Probes

Spin Lock Probes

Thread Locks

Readers/Writer Lock Probes

Stability

profile Provider

profile- n probes

tick- n probes

Arguments

Timer Resolution

Probe Creation

Stability

cpc Provider

Probes

Arguments

Probe Availability

Probe Creation

Co-existence With Existing Tools

Examples

user-insts.d

kern-cycles.d

brendan-l2miss.d

brendan-generic-l2miss.d

Stability

fbt Provider

Probes

Probe arguments

entry probes

return probes

Examples

Tail-call Optimization

Assembly Functions

Instruction Set Limitations

x86 Limitations

SPARC Limitations

Breakpoint Interaction

Module Loading

Stability

syscall Provider

Probes

System Call Anachronisms

Subcoded System Calls

New System Calls

Deleted System Calls

Large File System Calls

Private System Calls

Arguments

Stability

sdt Provider

Probes

Examples

Creating SDT Probes

Declaring Probes

Probe Arguments

Stability

mib Provider

Probes

Arguments

Stability

fpuinfo Provider

Probes

Arguments

Stability

pid Provider

Naming pid Probes

Function Boundary Probes

entry Probes

return Probes

Function Offset Probes

Stability

plockstat Provider

Overview

Mutex Probes

Reader/Writer Lock Probes

Stability

fasttrap Provider

Probes

Stability

sysinfo Provider

Probes

Arguments

Example

Stability

vminfo Provider

Probes

Arguments

Example

Stability

proc Provider

Probes

Arguments

lwpsinfo_t

psinfo_t

Examples

exec

start and exit

lwp-start and lwp-exit

signal-send

Stability

sched Provider

Probes

Arguments

cpuinfo_t

Examples

on-cpu and off-cpu

enqueue and dequeue

sleep and wakeup

preempt and remain-cpu

change-pri

tick

cpucaps-sleep and cpucaps-wakeup

Stability

io Provider

Probes

Arguments

bufinfo_t structure

devinfo_t

fileinfo_t

Examples

Stability

Protocols

ip Provider

Probes

Arguments

args[0] - pktinfo_t Structure

args[1] - csinfo_t Structure

args[2] - ipinfo_t Structure

args[3] - ifinfo_t Structure

args[4] - ipv4info_t Structure

args[5] - ipv6info_t Structure

Examples

Packets by host address

Sent size distribution

ipio.d

ipproto.d

Stability

iscsi Provider

Probes

Arguments

Types

Examples

One-liners

iscsiwho.d

iscsixfer.d

nfsv3 Provider

Arguments

Probes

Examples

nfsv3rwsnoop.d

nfsv3ops.d

nfsv3fileio.d

nfsv3rwtime.d

nfsv3io.d

nfsv4 Provider

Arguments

Probes

Examples

nfsv4rwsnoop.d

nfsv4ops.d

nfsv4fileio.d

nfsv4rwtime.d

nfsv4io.d

srp Provider

Probes

Probes Overview

Service up/down Event Probes

Remote Port Login/Logout Event Probes

SRP Command Event Probes

SCSI Command Event Probes

Data Transfer Probes

Types

scsicmd_t

conninfo_t

srp_portinfo_t

srp_logininfo_t

srp_taskinfo_t

xferinfo_t

Examples

service.d

srpwho.d

srpsnoop.d

tcp Provider

Probes

Arguments

pktinfo_t Structure

csinfo_t Structure

ipinfo_t Structure

tcpsinfo_t Structure

tcplsinfo_t Structure

tcpinfo_t Structure

Examples

Connections by Host Address

Connections by TCP Port

Who is Connecting to What

Who Isn't Connecting to What

Packets by Host Address

Packets by Local Port

Sent Size Distribution

tcpstate.d

tcpio.d

tcp Stability

udp Provider

Probes

Arguments

pktinfo_t Structure

csinfo_t Structure

ipinfo_t Structure

udpsinfo_t Structure

udpsinfo_t Structure

Examples

Packets by Host Address

Packets by Local Port

Sent Size Distribution

udp Stability

12.  User Process Tracing

13.  Statically Defined Tracing for User Applications

14.  Security

15.  Anonymous Tracing

16.  Postmortem Tracing

17.  Performance Considerations

18.  Stability

19.  Translators

20.  Versioning

Chapter 11

Providers

This chapter lists and explains the existing DTrace providers.