[RFC patch 0/4] stapsdt provider: simple system-wide probing
Alan Maguire <[email protected]>
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This series adds wildcard support to stapsdt probes to allow tracing system-wide; this has caveats due to the way the kernel implements probe addition. In essence, probes will fire for new programs launched since instrumentation was attached, but will work for libraries in existing programs. See example in patch 4 for how we can use this to trace libpython system-wide. Patch 1 describes the approach; to facilitate systemwide tracing we need to tell DTrace the name of the binary/library via the module field in the probe specifier; we then use [LD_LIBRARY_]PATH to resolve the full path. ELF reading of the file and insertion of probes then proceeds in a similar manner to per-pid tracing. Patches 2/3 are tests for binary/library tracing, and patch 4 updates docs. Alan Maguire (4): stapsdt provider: support systemwide probing test: add systemwide stapsdt note test test: add systemwide stapsdt note test for library documentation: update stapsdt docs to describe wildcard support .../reference/dtrace_providers_stapsdt.md | 41 ++++- libdtrace/dt_pid.c | 158 ++++++++++++++---- libdtrace/dt_prov_uprobe.c | 12 +- .../usdt/tst.stapsdt-notes-systemwide-lib.r | 14 ++ .../usdt/tst.stapsdt-notes-systemwide-lib.sh | 142 ++++++++++++++++ .../usdt/tst.stapsdt-notes-systemwide.r | 2 + .../usdt/tst.stapsdt-notes-systemwide.sh | 51 ++++++ 7 files changed, 378 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-) create mode 100644 test/unittest/usdt/tst.stapsdt-notes-systemwide-lib.r create mode 100755 test/unittest/usdt/tst.stapsdt-notes-systemwide-lib.sh create mode 100644 test/unittest/usdt/tst.stapsdt-notes-systemwide.r create mode 100755 test/unittest/usdt/tst.stapsdt-notes-systemwide.sh -- 2.43.5