Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide

Stability

The FBT provider uses DTrace's stability mechanism to describe its stabilities, as shown in the following table. For more information about the stability mechanism, see Chapter 39, Stability.

Element 

Name stability 

Data stability 

Dependency class 

Provider 

Evolving 

Evolving 

ISA

Module 

Private 

Private 

Unknown 

Function 

Private 

Private 

Unknown 

Name 

Evolving 

Evolving 

ISA

Arguments 

Private 

Private 

ISA

As FBT exposes the kernel implementation, nothing about it is Stable — and the Module and Function name and data stability are explicitly Private. The data stability for Provider and Name are Evolving, but all other data stabilities are Private: they are artifacts of the current implementation. The dependency class for FBT is ISA: while FBT is available on all current instruction set architectures, there is no guarantee that FBT will be available on arbitrary future instruction set architectures.