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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:50:06 +0400
From:      Fedor Indutny <fedor@indutny.com>
To:        Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-dtrace@freebsd.org" <freebsd-dtrace@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: DTrace fixes for node.js
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On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:30 AM, Fedor Indutny <fedor@indutny.com> wrote:
>> Mark,
>>
>> Thanks for looking into this. I just tried your patch and it (no
>> surprise) builds fine. Node.js DOF symbols seems to be resolving
>> properly too!
>>
>> Do you want me to squash this changes into my patch, and post them on
>> that ticket?
>>
>
> That would be good, thanks. When I have some time I'll do more testing
> and commit the change.
>
> -Mark
>
>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 06:16:15PM +0400, Fedor Indutny wrote:
>>>> Hello devs!
>>>>
>>>> I have made some fixes to fix DTrace support for node.js in FreeBSD:
>>>>
>>>> * http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=186821
>>>> * http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=187027
>>>>
>>>> Here is a blog post with a bit of explanation of why this is needed
>>>> and what is fixed: https://blog.indutny.com/7.freebsd-dtrace
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know if I could be any help in reviewing it.
>>>
>>> Hi Fedor,
>>>
>>> The DOF limit change looks fine to me. I note that the illumos guys have
>>> just pushed a change to illumos-gate which bumps dtrace_dof_maxsize, but
>>> it's good to have the sysctl as well.
>>>
>>> The drti change looks mostly good to me. The real problem there is that
>>> our linker doesn't know how to merge DOF, so it just concatenates the
>>> tables into one SUNW_dof section. So we should really fix our linker,
>>> but it doesn't hurt to also handle the problem in drti.o.
>>>
>>> There are a couple of bugs in the patch. First, the "break" added after
>>> finding the DOF section causes problems if we haven't yet seen the
>>> symbol table. Second, fixedprobes needs to be reset at the beginning of
>>> each iteration of the while loop that you added, else we may not try
>>> searching the dynamic symbol table when fixing the probe addresses. I've
>>> pasted a patch below; could you test it and make sure things still work
>>> properly with node?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the detailed blog post and problem description, they were
>>> very helpful. :)
>>>
>>> -Mark
>>>
>>> diff --git a/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/lib/libdtrace/common/drti.c b/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/lib/libdtrace/common/drti.c
>>> index e47cfb4d..bb02d8c 100644
>>> --- a/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/lib/libdtrace/common/drti.c
>>> +++ b/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/lib/libdtrace/common/drti.c
>>> @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ dtrace_dof_init(void)
>>>         char *dofstrtabraw;
>>>         size_t shstridx, symtabidx = 0, dynsymidx = 0;
>>>         unsigned char *buf;
>>> -       int fixedprobes = 0;
>>> +       int fixedprobes;
>>>  #endif
>>>
>>>         if (getenv("DTRACE_DOF_INIT_DISABLE") != NULL)
>>> @@ -214,7 +214,6 @@ dtrace_dof_init(void)
>>>                         if  (s && strcmp(s, ".SUNW_dof") == 0) {
>>>                                 dofdata = elf_getdata(scn, NULL);
>>>                                 dof = dofdata->d_buf;
>>> -                               break;
>>>                         }
>>>                 }
>>>         }
>>> @@ -226,6 +225,7 @@ dtrace_dof_init(void)
>>>         }
>>>
>>>         while ((char *) dof < (char *) dofdata->d_buf + dofdata->d_size) {
>>> +               fixedprobes = 0;
>>>                 dof_next = (void *) ((char *) dof + dof->dofh_filesz);
>>>  #endif
>>>



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