Hi, Daniel

Thanks for the sponsoring.
> This case was approved during today's PSARC meeting.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> Dan Hain wrote:
>> I am sponsoring this FastTrack for Philippe Jung. Requested binding 
>> is Patch, timeout 3/28/2008.
>>
>> - Dan
>>
>>
>> Template Version: @(#)onepager.txt 1.31 07/08/08 SMI This information 
>> is Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems
>> 1. Introduction
>>   1.1. Project/Component Working Name: new mdb stackinfo command
>>
>>   1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
>>     Philippe Jung
>>
>>   1.3. Date of This Document:
>>     02/29/2008
>>
>>   1.4. Name of Major Document Customer(s)/Consumer(s):
>>        1.4.1. The Community you expect to review your project:
>>        1.4.2. The ARC(s) you expect to review your project:
>>         PSARC
>>
>>   1.5. Email Aliases:
>>        1.5.2. Responsible Engineer: Philippe.Jung at sun.com
>>        1.5.4. Interest List:
>>         Ken.Tomlinson at sun.com
>>         Renaud.Manus at sun.com
>>         William.Roche at sun.com
>>         Chris.Beal at sun.com
>>
>> 2. Project Summary
>>   2.1. Project Description:
>>
>>     Context: Some Solaris layered drivers (3rd parties) like EMC, 
>> Veritas
>>     requests a change of Solaris default kernel stack size. This project
>>     adds a new mdb command that helps to answer the following question:
>>     "How close has this Solaris system be from a kernel stack 
>> overflow ?".
>>     This project introduces a new mdb command (::stackinfo) and a new 
>> kernel
>>     tunable (kmem_stackinfo).     At kernel thread creation time, the 
>> kernel thread stack is filled with
>>     a specific pattern (instead of zero filled) if the kmem_stackinfo 
>> variable
>>     is set to non zero value. During the kernel thread execution, the 
>> kernel
>>     thread stack pattern is progressively overwritten.
>>     This feature takes in account hardware architecture (stack grows 
>> either to
>>        lower or larger addresses). A simple count from stack top 
>> until pattern is
>>     not found (or stack botom is reached) gives a high water mark 
>> value, the
>>     maximum kernel stack space used by a kernel thread
>>     This allows to compute the maximum usage (a high water mark) of 
>> kernel stack
>>     usage. This new mdb command (::stackinfo) can also display the 
>> 'dead' kernel
>>     threads that have exercised their kernel stack the most (a DTRACE 
>> Statically
>>     Defined Tracing probe is also provided  for this).
>>     Example:
>>     /etc/system: set kmem_stackinfo=0x1
>>     > ::stackinfo
>>               THREAD            STACK   SIZE  CUR  MAX CMD/LWPID
>>     000003000ec76a00 000002a10049a000   5ae0   3%  44% svc.startd/8
>>
>>     svc.startd/8 is currently at 3% of its kernel stack, but has already
>>     used up to 44% of its kernel stack.
>>
>>
>>   2.2. Risks and Assumptions:
>>
>>     None.
>>     3. Business Summary
>>   3.1. Problem Area:
>>
>>     Helps answering Solaris developers/system admins the following 
>> question:
>>     "How close has this Solaris system be from a kernel stack 
>> overflow ?".
>>
>>   3.2. Market/Requester:
>>
>>     Any Solaris kernel developer (layered drivers), any Solaris system
>>     administrator.
>>
>>   3.3. Business Justification:
>>
>>
>>   3.4. Competitive Analysis:
>>
>>     N/A.
>>
>>   3.5. Opportunity Window/Exposure:
>>
>>     N/A.
>>
>>   3.6. How will you know when you are done?:
>>
>>     The project is already available. Project and code review has been
>>     performed by following people:
>>         Ken.Tomlinson at sun.com Renaud.Manus at sun.com William.Roche at 
>> sun.com
>>         Chris.Beal at sun.com
>>
>> 4. Technical Description:
>>    4.1. Details:
>>
>>     file:///net/tb3.uk/tank/u/pjung/onnv_stack/web/stack.html
>>     /net/tb3.uk/tank/u/pjung/onnv_stack/DOCS/STACKINFO.sxw
>>     /net/tb3.uk/tank/u/pjung/onnv_stack/DOCS/STACKINFO.pdf
>>    4.2. Bug/RFE Number(s):
>>
>>     6626918 A new (k)mdb command ::stackinfo, kernel thread stack usage
>>
>>    4.3. In Scope:
>>
>>     N/A.
>>
>>    4.4. Out of Scope:
>>
>>     N/A.
>>
>>    4.5. Interfaces:
>>
>>     A new tunable in /etc/system, like slab allocator debug kmem_flags.
>>
>>     set kmem_stackinfo = 0x1
>>
>>     A new (k)mdb command:
>>     > ::help stackinfo
>>
>>     NAME
>>       stackinfo - display kthread_t stack usage
>>         SYNOPSIS
>>       [ addr ] ::stackinfo         DESCRIPTION
>>          -a show also TS_FREE kthreads
>>          -h print history (dead kthreads)
>>         ATTRIBUTES
>>           Target: kvm
>>       Module: genunix
>>       Interface Stability: Unstable
>>
>>     A new Dtrace probe:
>>     sdt:genunix:thread_log_stk_usage_free:stack-usage
>>
>>    4.6. Doc Impact:
>>
>>     None.
>>
>>    4.7. Admin/Config Impact:
>>
>>     None.
>>
>>    4.8. HA Impact:
>>
>>     None.
>>
>>    4.9. I18N/L10N Impact:
>>
>>     None.
>>
>>    4.10. Packaging & Delivery:
>>
>>     None (no new package or existing package modification).
>>
>>    4.11. Security Impact:
>>
>>     None.
>>
>>    4.12. Dependencies:
>>
>>     None.
>>
>> 5. Reference Documents:
>>
>>     file:///net/tb3.uk/tank/u/pjung/onnv_stack/web/stack.html
>>
>> 6. Resources and Schedule:
>>   6.1. Projected Availability:
>>
>>     2 weeks
>>
>>   6.2. Cost of Effort:
>>
>>     development: 2 man/week (done)
>>     QE:
>>     QA:
>>
>>   6.4. Product Approval Committee requested information:
>>        6.4.1. Consolidation or Component Name:
>>        6.4.7. Target RTI Date/Release:
>>        6.4.8. Target Code Design Review Date:
>>
>>   6.5. ARC review type:
>>                //   Standard
>>                //   SelfReview
>>   6.6. ARC Exposure: open
>>       6.6.1. Rationale: Part of OpenSolaris
>>
>> 7. Prototype Availability:
>>   7.1. Prototype Availability:
>>
>>     file:///net/tb3.uk/tank/u/pjung/onnv_stack/webrev/index.html
>>     /net/tb3.uk/tank/u/pjung/onnv_stack/DOCS/STACKINFO.sxw
>>     /net/tb3.uk/tank/u/pjung/onnv_stack/DOCS/STACKINFO.pdf
>>   7.2. Prototype Cost:
>>
>>     None (Prototype done).
>>
>
>


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