adding SDT probe functions with 6+ DTrace arguments

Mark Johnston markj at freebsd.org
Thu May 30 13:56:22 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 09:02:54AM -0400, George Neville-Neil wrote:
> 
> On May 30, 2013, at 2:14 , Brendan Gregg <brendan.gregg at joyent.com> wrote:
> 
> > G'Day Mark,
> > 
> > As this might be interesting: to check that DTRACE_PROBE7 worked, in
> > Solaris I had added an sdt:::test probe, which could be invoked by the
> > DTrace test suite (sdt/tst.sdtargs.c) by calling uadmin() with A_SDTTEST:
> > 
> >        case A_SDTTEST:
> >        {
> >                DTRACE_PROBE7(test, int, 1, int, 2, int, 3, int, 4, int, 5,
> >                    int, 6, int, 7);
> >                break;
> >        }
> > 
> > Getting the tcp and ip providers working will be great.
> > 
> 
> Chiming in late.  Yes, let's extend the SDT macros in line with what we've done
> already.  This will also make it easy to MFC to 9 and 8.

Ok, thanks. I'll commit them later today. The network providers depend
on them, so I wanted to get them in first as well as fix the bugs
mentioned in my other email on this thread.

-Mark


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