This restriction was inherited from upstream but is not relevant on FreeBSD.
Furthermore, it hindered the tracing of locking primitive subroutines.
MFC after: 1 week
In the old days callout(9) had 1 tick precision and that was inadequate
for some uses, e.g. DTrace profile module, so we had to emulate cyclic
API and behavior. Now we can directly use callout(9) in the very few
places where cyclic was used.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1161
Reviewed by: gnn, jhb, markj
MFC after: 2 weeks
tracepoints would continue to generate traps, which would be ignored but
could consume noticeable amounts of CPU if, say, all functions in the kernel
were instrumented.
X-MFC-With: r270067
duplicating the entire implementation for both x86 and powerpc. This makes
it easier to add support for other architectures and has no functional
impact.
Phabric: D613
Reviewed by: gnn, jhibbits, rpaulo
Tested by: jhibbits (powerpc)
MFC after: 2 weeks
probes declared in a kernel module when that module is unloaded. In
particular,
* Unloading a module with active SDT probes will cause a panic. [1]
* A module's (FBT/SDT) probes aren't destroyed when the module is unloaded;
trying to use them after the fact will generally cause a panic.
This change fixes both problems by porting the DTrace module load/unload
handlers from illumos and registering them with the corresponding
EVENTHANDLER(9) handlers. This allows the DTrace framework to destroy all
probes defined in a module when that module is unloaded, and to prevent a
module unload from proceeding if some of its probes are active. The latter
problem has already been fixed for FBT probes by checking lf->nenabled in
kern_kldunload(), but moving the check into the DTrace framework generalizes
it to all kernel providers and also fixes a race in the current
implementation (since a probe may be activated between the check and the
call to linker_file_unload()).
Additionally, the SDT implementation has been reworked to define SDT
providers/probes/argtypes in linker sets rather than using SYSINIT/SYSUNINIT
to create and destroy SDT probes when a module is loaded or unloaded. This
simplifies things quite a bit since it means that pretty much all of the SDT
code can live in sdt.ko, and since it becomes easier to integrate SDT with
the DTrace framework. Furthermore, this allows FreeBSD to be quite flexible
in that SDT providers spanning multiple modules can be created on the fly
when a module is loaded; at the moment it looks like illumos' SDT
implementation requires all SDT probes to be statically defined in a single
kernel table.
PR: 166927, 166926, 166928
Reported by: davide [1]
Reviewed by: avg, trociny (earlier version)
MFC after: 1 month
This issue would be silent most of the time, but if the requested memory
is a multiple of a page size, then accessing one element beyond the end
would lead to a kernel page fault.
Otherwise, the unlucky last type would just be inaccessible.
Reported by: glebius
Tested by: glebius
MFC after: 6 days
