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John Birrell writes:
 > We've got the following providers:
 > 
 > - dtrace
 > - profile
 > - syscall
 > - sdt
 > - fbt
 > 
 > As of today, loading those providers on a GENERIC kernel gives 32,519 probes.

Awesome!  As somebody who does a lot of driver development on
Solaris, I feel naked without dtrace.  I'm very glad it is coming
to FreeBSD.

Do you plan to also port lockstat?  That could be very useful in
the ongoing SMPng'ification of the kernel.

Drew