DTrace - capturing two userspace strack frames on top of system call
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 01:54:31 UTC
I want to capture the (userland) stack trace on top of the write(2) system call. I seem to have some difficulty switching from kernel to user mode here. For every write system call I want to print the calling userlevel frames. I can't care whether they are individually printed or counted. Here is what I think should do it: syscall::write*:entry /arg1/ { @traces[ustack()] = count(); } However, I get one error each for each write call: dtrace: error on enabled probe ID 2 (ID 56902: syscall:freebsd:write:entry): invalid address (0x0) in action #2 This gives the same error: syscall::write*:entry /arg1/ { ustack(); } %% If I use system stackframes it works, but of course it doesn't print the calling frames: syscall::write*:entry /arg1/ { @traces[stack()] = count(); } dtrace: script 'stack-to-write.dtrace' matched 3 probes dtrace: buffer size lowered to 2m dtrace: aggregation size lowered to 2m dtrace: pid 11790 has exited kernel`handle_el0_sync+0x40 136 %% Is what I am trying to do even possible? Can I mix kernel and userlevel space like this? Any other ideas? I could brute-force it with LD_PRELOAD overloading of write(2), but dtrace would be more elegant. Thanks in advance Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/