DTrace gone quiet?

Pedro Giffuni pfg at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 17 02:28:16 UTC 2013


On 04/16/13 15:54, Mark Johnston wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:57:08PM -0700, Navdeep Parhar wrote:
>> I just upgraded my kernel and userspace to head (r249552) and I notice
>> that DTrace doesn't output anything until I hit ctrl-c.  All previous
>> "hits" on the probe appear lost.  For example:
>>
>> # dtrace -n 'fbt::ether_output:entry'
>> dtrace: description 'fbt::ether_output:entry' matched 1 probe
>>
>> (No output here.  I waited a long time before the ctrl-c and I know the
>> system is actively transmitting and receiving Ethernet traffic).
>>
>> ^C
>> CPU     ID                    FUNCTION:NAME
>>    9  29354               ether_output:entry
>>    8  29354               ether_output:entry
>>    8  29354               ether_output:entry
>>    8  29354               ether_output:entry
>>
>>
>> Can anyone confirm or contradict this on a recent HEAD (around r249552
>> in my case)?
> Reverting r249367 and rebuilding libdtrace+the kernel fixes the problem
> for me.
>
> -Mark
Thanks for pointing culprit !

Unfortunately upstream merged many changes in the same commit
so it's difficult to separate the specific change that is causing this.

I reverted all the change in r249573.

Regards,

Pedro.


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