Chapter 11 DTrace Providers

Table of Contents

11.1 dtrace Provider

11.1.1 BEGIN Probe
11.1.2 END Probe
11.1.3 ERROR Probe
11.1.4 dtrace Stability

11.2 profile Provider

11.2.1 profile-n Probes
11.2.2 tick-n Probes
11.2.3 profile Probe Arguments
11.2.4 profile Probe Creation
11.2.5 prof Stability

11.3 fbt Provider

11.3.1 fbt Probes
11.3.2 fbt Probe Arguments
11.3.3 fbt Examples
11.3.4 Module Loading and fbt
11.3.5 fbt Stability

11.4 syscall Provider

11.4.1 syscall Probes
11.4.2 syscall Probe Arguments
11.4.3 syscall Stability

11.5 sdt provider

11.5.1 Creating sdt Probes
11.5.2 sdt Stability

11.6 pid Provider

11.6.1 Naming pid Probes
11.6.2 pid Probe Arguments
11.6.3 pid Stability

11.7 proc Provider

11.7.1 proc Probes
11.7.2 proc Probe Arguments
11.7.3 proc Examples
11.7.4 proc Stability

11.8 sched Provider

11.8.1 sched Probes
11.8.2 sched Probe Arguments
11.8.3 sched Examples
11.8.4 sched Stability

11.9 io Provider

11.9.1 io Probes
11.9.2 io Probe Arguments
11.9.3 io Examples
11.9.4 io Stability

11.10 fasttrap Provider

11.10.1 fasttrap Probes
11.10.2 fasttrap Stability

This chapter describes some of the existing DTrace providers. Note that the list of providers discussed in this chapter is not exhaustive. To display the providers that are available on your system, use the dtrace -l command. Detailed information about translators for important data structures can be found in /usr/lib64/dtrace/version/*.d files.