=== Improve the kinst DTrace provider Links: + link:https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38825[libdtrace: implement inline function tracing] URL: link:https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38825[] + link:https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38732[dtrace(1): add -d flag to dump D script post-dt_sugar] URL: link:https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38732[] Contact: Christos Margiolis + Contact: Mark Johnston kinst is a new DTrace provider created by christos@ and markj@ that allows for arbitrary instruction tracing in a kernel function. kinst has been added to the base system in FreeBSD 14.0. link:../report-2022-07-2022-09/#_dtrace_instruction_level_dynamic_tracing[The 2022Q3 status report gives a brief introduction to kinst.] We're now working on inline function tracing (see review D38825 above) -- a much-requested DTrace feature -- by using kernel DWARF and ELF info to find the call sites of each inline copy and use that information to transform D syntax by turning kinst probes of the form: .... kinst::: // { } .... To: .... kinst:::, kinst:::, kinst::: // { } .... For example: .... # dtrace -dn 'kinst::cam_iosched_has_more_trim:entry { printf("\t%d\t%s", pid, execname); }' kinst::cam_iosched_get_trim:13, kinst::cam_iosched_next_bio:13, kinst::cam_iosched_schedule:40 { printf("\t%d\t%s", pid, execname); } dtrace: description 'kinst::cam_iosched_has_more_trim:entry ' matched 3 probes CPU ID FUNCTION:NAME 2 79315 cam_iosched_next_bio:13 0 kernel 2 79316 cam_iosched_schedule:40 0 kernel 0 79316 cam_iosched_schedule:40 12 intr 2 79315 cam_iosched_next_bio:13 0 kernel 2 79316 cam_iosched_schedule:40 0 kernel 0 79316 cam_iosched_schedule:40 12 intr ^C .... A new `-d` flag has also been added to man:dtrace[1] which dumps the D script after libdtrace has applied syntactic transformations. Further goals include: * Implement a `locals` structure in D which stores the local variables of the traced function. For example with `kinst::foo:`, we could print the local variable `bar` by doing `print(locals->bar)` inside a D script. * Port kinst to riscv and/or arm64. Sponsor: The FreeBSD Foundation