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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:21:35 -0400
From:      Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Ryan Stone <rstone@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r233552 - in head/sys: cddl/dev/sdt kern sys
Message-ID:  <CAFMmRNwqYHJ=2KqxU_24spuLVGV4DGX_RKAs%2BB9nSrigsinCGA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120328002756.0000118e@unknown>
References:  <201203271507.q2RF7hO2091110@svn.freebsd.org> <20120328002756.0000118e@unknown>

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On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Alexander Leidinger
<Alexander@leidinger.net> wrote:
> Great!
> Is this automatic, or do I need to do something in the newly loaded KLD?

Nothing special. You can follow exactly the same set of steps as for
adding probes to the kernel itself:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/DTrace/HowToAddSDTProbes

>> =A0 This makes it possible to create SDT probes in KLD modules,
>> although there are still two caveats: first, any SDT probes in a KLD
>> module must be part of a DTrace provider that is defined in that
>> module.
>
> To make sure I understand it correctly:
> If I have the provider "linuxulator", all probes for this provider
> need to be within the KLD. No other KLD is allowed to reference this
> provider. To stay with the linuxulator example: if a module which
> depends upon linux.ko wants to have some SDT probes, it has to use a
> different provider.

Exactly correct.



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