This is a new DTrace provider which allows arbitrary kernel instructions to be traced. Currently it is implemented only for amd64. kinst probes are created on demand by libdtrace, and there is a probe for each kernel instruction. Probes are named kinst:<module>:<function>:<offset>, where "offset" is the offset of the target instruction relative to the beginning of the function. Omitting "offset" causes all instructions in the function to be traced. kinst works similarly to FBT in that it places a breakpoint on the target instruction and hooks into the kernel breakpoint handler. Because kinst has to be able to trace arbitrary instructions, it does not emulate most of them in software but rather causes the traced thread to execute a copy of the instruction before returning to the original code. The provider is quite low-level and as-is will be useful mostly only to kernel developers. However, it provides a great deal of visibility into kernel code execution and could be used as a building block for higher-level tooling which can in some sense translate between C sources and generated machine code. In particular, the "regs" variable recently added to D allows the CPU's register file to be accessed from kinst probes. kinst is experimental and should not be used on production systems for now. In collaboration with: markj Sponsored by: Google, Inc. (GSoC 2022) MFC after: 3 months Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36851 |
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bin | System/user commands. |
cddl | Various commands and libraries under the Common Development and Distribution License. |
contrib | Packages contributed by 3rd parties. |
crypto | Cryptography stuff (see crypto/README). |
etc | Template files for /etc. |
gnu | Commands and libraries under the GNU General Public License (GPL) or Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Please see gnu/COPYING and gnu/COPYING.LIB for more information. |
include | System include files. |
kerberos5 | Kerberos5 (Heimdal) package. |
lib | System libraries. |
libexec | System daemons. |
release | Release building Makefile & associated tools. |
rescue | Build system for statically linked /rescue utilities. |
sbin | System commands. |
secure | Cryptographic libraries and commands. |
share | Shared resources. |
stand | Boot loader sources. |
sys | Kernel sources. |
sys/arch /conf |
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tests | Regression tests which can be run by Kyua. See tests/README for additional information. |
tools | Utilities for regression testing and miscellaneous tasks. |
usr.bin | User commands. |
usr.sbin | System administration commands. |
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