[dtrace-discuss] Question about -xlaxyload option to dtrace -G

2009-11-11 Thread Robert Alatalo
Hello, I am trying to get documentation how how this lazyloading happens when you are dealing with dtrace probes being added to user applications. In particular if it somehow avoids the overhead of registering dtrace probes when they aren't needed, how does it know if they are needed, etc...

Re: [dtrace-discuss] Question about -xlaxyload option to dtrace -G

2009-11-11 Thread Jon Haslam
Hi Robert, I am trying to get documentation how how this lazyloading happens when you are dealing with dtrace probes being added to user applications. In particular if it somehow avoids the overhead of registering dtrace probes when they aren't needed, how does it know if they are needed

Re: [dtrace-discuss] DTrace (API) version?

2009-11-11 Thread Brian Leonard
I did find this: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+dtrace/ChangeLog But unfortunately, it doesn't map DTrace API Version numbers to the SNV build numbers. This would be useful, for example, for knowing which of these DTrace features, if any, are available in a Solaris 10 updat

Re: [dtrace-discuss] eliminating drops

2009-11-11 Thread Ryan
> I'm trying to collect function calls in Firefox in > the time order. > > I want just the XUL library but I must not miss any > functions since I > will be feeding the list to the linker for reordering > of symbols. > > I collect about 11Gb of function names but I can't > manage to eliminate

Re: [dtrace-discuss] DTrace (API) version?

2009-11-11 Thread Jon Haslam
Hi Brian, I did find this: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+dtrace/ChangeLog But unfortunately, it doesn't map DTrace API Version numbers to the SNV build numbers. This would be useful, for example, for knowing which of these DTrace features, if any, are available in a Sol

[dtrace-discuss] Dtrace error - ic_len definition uses incompatible types

2009-11-11 Thread Rodney
I'm using OSOL 10.02 dev release 126 from the /dev repo, x86 32-bit. All dtrace scripts are failing with: "/usr/lib/dtrace/scsi.d", line 46: translator member ic_len definition uses incompatible types: "uint64_t" = "ctxop_t *" Any suggestions what is wrong and how to fix? On my system /usr/lib

Re: [dtrace-discuss] Dtrace error - ic_len definition uses incompatible types

2009-11-11 Thread Jon Haslam
Hi, You're probably running into the following issue which is an OpenSolaris upgrade related problem: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=11609 Unfortunately, this breaks the type information that DTrace uses. I'm not really aware of anything that you can do to get DTrace working c